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Trippy NASA video shows two black holes interacting – Digital Trends
NASA has created a visualization of what happens when two black holes pass one another, showing how the gravity of each warps the accretion disk of the other.
Black holes are so dense that their gravity pulls in everything around them, even light. But that doesn’t mean that they are invisible to view. They collect clouds of dust and gas which form a structure around the black hole called an accretion disk, from which matter is pulled into the black hole over time. These accretion disks give off light and form the distinctive humped appearance made famous by movies like Interstellar.
Now, NASA has created a visualization, shared in the video above, showing…
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