Black Holes and Their Companions Close Up
Close up view of GRS 1915.
Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
These visualizations show 22 X-ray binaries in our Milky Way galaxy and its nearest neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, that host confirmed stellar-mass black holes.
The movies form the basis of NASA’s Black Hole Orrery. Please refer to that page for additional details.
Close up view of Cygnus X-1.
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Close up view of LMC X-1.
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Close up view of V404 Cygni.
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Close up view of V4641 Sagittarii.
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Close up view of GS 1354.
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Close up view of GRO J1655.
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Close up view of GX 339-4.
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Close up view of LMC X-3.
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Close up view of XTE J1550.
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Close up view of 4U 1543.
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Close up view of MAXI J1820.
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Close up view of H1705.
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Close up view of GRS 1124.
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Close up view of GS 2000.
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Close up view of GRS 1009.
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Close up view of A0620-00.
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Close up view of XTE J1859.
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Close up view of XTE J1650.
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Close up view of XTE J1118.
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Close up view of GRO J0422.
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Close up view of MAXI J1659.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizers
- Andrew J Christensen (SSAI)
- Mark SubbaRao (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Jeremy Schnittman (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Writer
- Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
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Technical support
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, May 2, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 11:44 AM EDT.
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