Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes

Watch the spiraling supermassive Black Holes, in this amazing simulation.

Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Models like this may eventually help scientists pinpoint real examples of these powerful binary systems.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg

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