New NASA Visualization Probes The Light-Bending Dance Of Binary Black Holes

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A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun's mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a new NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas - called an accretion disk - that surrounds each one.

Viewed from near the orbital plane, each...

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