Artist’s animated view of the black hole in NGC 1850 distorting its companion star
This artist’s impression shows a compact black hole 11 times as massive as the Sun and its companion, a five-solar-mass star. Although the star's movement is not displayed in this view of the binary, the star orbits the black hole. The two objects are located in NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way neighbour. The distortion of the star’s shape is due to the strong gravitational force exerted by the black hole.
Credit:ESO/M. Kornmesser
About the Video
Id: | eso2116d |
Release date: | 11 November 2021, 13:00 |
Related releases: | eso2116 |
Duration: | 23 s |
Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
Name: | NGC 1850 |
Type: | Local Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole |
Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |