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Goddard TV Video Tape: G2013-023 -- First Principles Black Hole Simulation

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This animation of supercomputer data takes you to the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. Gas heated to 20 million degrees F as it spirals toward the black hole glows in low-energy, or soft, X-rays. Just before the gas plunges to the center, its orbital motion is approaching the speed of light. X-rays up to hundreds of times more powerful ( NASA-led Study Explains How Black Holes Shine in Hard X-rays