Black Hole Slide Show

Real Images of Actual Black
Holes
Extraordinary Evidence
for an Incredible Idea
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A Brief Summary of Black
Holes
Stellar-mass black holes
The most massive stars end their lives
in titanic explosions, leaving nothing
behind but their ultra-dense collapsed
cores.
Mid-mass black holes
A new class of recently-discovered
black holes have masses on the order
of hundreds or thousands of stars.
Supermassive black holes

The centers of galaxies contain giant
black holes, with the masses of millions,
even billions, of stars.
We cannot see black holes directly, but their
influence
on the matterRepresentations
around them reveals
above are artists’ their
impressions, and not to scale.
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X-ray Binary: Visible Light
View
Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Many of the stars in our universe come in pairs.
Ordinary stars orbiting around a black hole will
appear to “wobble” in the sky.
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X-ray Binary: X-ray Light View
NASA / CXC / SAO

More dramatically, matter being pulled off the
orbiting star, into the accretion disk of the black
hole, glows brightly in x-rays.
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Globular Cluster: Visible Light
View
W. Keel (U. Alabama), et al.. 1.54-m Telescope,

Chile
Globular clusters are large, dense clusters of
stars.
These stars are among the oldest stars in our
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Globular Cluster: X-ray Light
View
NASA / CXC / CfA/J. Grindlay & C. Heinke

Stars orbiting around black holes inside these
ancient clusters are revealed by the x-ray glow of
matter around them.
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Milky Way Center: Visible
Light View
W. Keel (U. Alabama), et al.. 1.54-m Telescope,

Chile
The heart of our galaxy is a veritable soup of
stars, gas, and dust. On a clear night in a dark
sky, the view is breathtaking.
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Milky Way Center: X-ray Light
View
NASA / U.Mass / D. Wang, et al.

Lurking within our galaxy’s hot, turbulent center
are x-ray binaries, neutron stars, and even a
supermassive black hole.
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Spiral Galaxy: Visible Light
View
NOAO / AURA / NSF/ T. Boroson

Like our own Milky Way, M74 is a majestic spiral.
The swirling spiral arms house a menagerie of
stars and stellar material.
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Spiral Galaxy: X-ray Light
View
NASA/CXC / U. Michigan / J. Liu et al.

X-ray observations of strange new sources provide
evidence for a new class of black holes, with the
mass of 10,000 stars.
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Spiral Galaxy: Multi-
wavelength View
NASA / CXC / U. Michigan / J. Liu et al.

NOAO / AURA / NSF / T. Boroson
Combining x-ray and visible light observations can
pinpoint the locations of black hole, providing a
more complete picture.
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Spiral Galaxies: An X-ray
Gallery
NASA / CXC / SAO / R. DiStefano, et al.

Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, these
“mid-mass” black holes are becoming part of the
story for all galaxies.
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Elliptical Galaxy: Visible and X-
ray Views
Digital Sky Survey

NASA / CXC / UVA / C. Sarazin, et al.
Indeed, most (if not all) galaxies are now thought

to house a variety of black holes, ranging in mass
from small to large.
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Deep Field Galaxies: X-ray View
NASA / CXC / PSU /D. M. Alexander, F. E. Bauer, W. N. Brandt, et al.

Looking out deep into space and back in time, we
see supermassive black holes in the cores of the
earliest galaxies.
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Colliding Galaxies: A Black Hole
Merger
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NASA / CXC / MPE / S. Komossa, et al.

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J. Barnes (U.Hawaii)
J. Hubbard (NRAO)
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as presentation to run.
Actual observations provide evidence and data for

computer simulations. What does it look like when
black holes collide?
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Centaurus A: Visible Light View
M. Rejkuba (ESO-Garching) et al., ISAAC, VLT

ANTU telescope, ESO Paranal Observatory
Centaurus A is a nearby galaxy that is thought to
be the result of a merger of two smaller galaxies.
What’s behind the dust?
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Centaurus A: X-ray Light View
NASA / SAO / R. Kraft, et al.

A telltale sign of a black hole is a high-energy jet
blasting into space. This galaxy has a supermassive
black hole in its center!
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Elliptical Galaxy: Visible and X-
ray Views
Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey NASA / CXC / M. Forman,

et al.
The elliptical galaxy M87 also houses a monster in
its middle: the most massive black hole yet
observed in our universe.
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Black Holes Galore!
NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al.
NASA/CXC/SAO/H.Marshall et al.
NASA/CXC/MIT/F. K.Baganoff et al.
X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/UCSB/P.Ogle et al.

NASA/UMD/A.Wilson et al.
Optical: NASA/STScI/A.Capetti et al
From the formation of galaxies to the deaths of

stars,
black holes are an integral part of our universe’s
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Credits
This slide show was created for:
Inside Einstein’s Universe
Black hole images in this presentation are courtesy:

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Center at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
To learn more about black holes, visit:

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Real Images of Actual Black

Location and Date here

Supermassive black holes

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

NASA / CXC / SAO

W. Keel (U. Alabama), et al.. 1.54-m Telescope,

NASA / CXC / CfA/J. Grindlay & C. Heinke

W. Keel (U. Alabama), et al.. 1.54-m Telescope,

NASA / U.Mass / D. Wang, et al.

NOAO / AURA / NSF/ T. Boroson

NASA/CXC / U. Michigan / J. Liu et al.

NASA / CXC / U. Michigan / J. Liu et al.

NASA / CXC / SAO / R. DiStefano, et al.

Digital Sky Survey

Indeed, most (if not all) galaxies are now thought

NASA / CXC / PSU /D. M. Alexander, F. E. Bauer, W. N. Brandt, et al.

NASA / CXC / MPE / S. Komossa, et al.

Actual observations provide evidence and data for

M. Rejkuba (ESO-Garching) et al., ISAAC, VLT

NASA / SAO / R. Kraft, et al.

Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey NASA / CXC / M. Forman,

X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/UCSB/P.Ogle et al.

From the formation of galaxies to the deaths of

Black hole images in this presentation are courtesy:

To learn more about black holes, visit:

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