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A Brief Summary of Black Holes

Stellar-mass black holes
The most massive stars end their lives in titanic
explosions, leaving nothing behind but their ultradense collapsed cores.
Mid-mass black holes
A new class of recently-discovered black holes
have masses on the order of hundreds or
thousands of stars.
Supermassive black holes
The centers of galaxies contain giant black holes,
with the masses of millions, even billions, of stars.

We cannot see black holes directly, but their influence

on the matter around them reveals their presence.
Representations above are artists impressions, and not to scale.
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey

X-ray Binary: Visible Light View

Many of the stars in our universe come in pairs. Ordinary stars

orbiting around a black hole will appear to wobble in the sky.
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NASA / CXC / SAO

X-ray Binary: X-ray Light View

More dramatically, matter being pulled off the orbiting star, into
the accretion disk of the black hole, glows brightly in x-rays.
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W. Keel (U. Alabama), et al.. 1.54-m Telescope, Chile

Globular Cluster: Visible Light View

Globular clusters are large, dense clusters of stars.

These stars are among the oldest stars in our universe.
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NASA / CXC / CfA/J. Grindlay & C. Heinke

Globular Cluster: X-ray Light View

Stars orbiting around black holes inside these ancient clusters

are revealed by the x-ray glow of matter around them.
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W. Keel (U. Alabama), et al.. 1.54-m Telescope, Chile

Milky Way Center: Visible Light View

The heart of our galaxy is a veritable soup of stars, gas, and

dust. On a clear night in a dark sky, the view is breathtaking.
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NASA / U.Mass / D. Wang, et al.

Milky Way Center: X-ray Light View

Lurking within our galaxys hot, turbulent center are x-ray

binaries, neutron stars, and even a supermassive black hole.
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NOAO / AURA / NSF/ T. Boroson

Spiral Galaxy: Visible Light View

Like our own Milky Way, M74 is a majestic spiral. The swirling
spiral arms house a menagerie of stars and stellar material.
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NASA/CXC / U. Michigan / J. Liu et al.

Spiral Galaxy: X-ray Light View

X-ray observations of strange new sources provide evidence

for a new class of black holes, with the mass of 10,000 stars.
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NASA / CXC / U. Michigan / J. Liu et al.

NOAO / AURA / NSF / T. Boroson

Spiral Galaxy: Multi-wavelength View

Combining x-ray and visible light observations can pinpoint the

locations of black hole, providing a more complete picture.
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NASA / CXC / SAO / R. DiStefano, et al.

Spiral Galaxies: An X-ray Gallery

Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, these mid-mass

black holes are becoming part of the story for all galaxies.
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Elliptical Galaxy: Visible and X-ray Views

Digital Sky Survey

NASA / CXC / UVA / C. Sarazin, et al.

Indeed, most (if not all) galaxies are now thought to house a
variety of black holes, ranging in mass from small to large.
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NASA / CXC / PSU /D. M. Alexander, F. E. Bauer, W. N. Brandt, et al.

Deep Field Galaxies: X-ray View

Looking out deep into space and back in time, we see

supermassive black holes in the cores of the earliest galaxies.
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Actual observations provide evidence and data for computer

simulations. What does it look like when black holes collide?
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NASA / CXC / MPE / S. Komossa, et al.

Colliding Galaxies: A Black Hole Merger

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M. Rejkuba (ESO-Garching) et al., ISAAC, VLT

ANTU telescope, ESO Paranal Observatory

Centaurus A: Visible Light View

Centaurus A is a nearby galaxy that is thought to be the result

of a merger of two smaller galaxies. Whats behind the dust?
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NASA / SAO / R. Kraft, et al.

Centaurus A: X-ray Light View

A telltale sign of a black hole is a high-energy jet blasting into

space. This galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its center!
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Elliptical Galaxy: Visible and X-ray Views

Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey

NASA / CXC / M. Forman, et al.

The elliptical galaxy M87 also houses a monster in its middle:

the most massive black hole yet observed in our universe.
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Black Holes Galore!

NASA/CXC/U.Amsterdam/S.Migliari et al.
NASA/CXC/SAO/H.Marshall et al.

NASA/CXC/MIT/F.K.Baganoff et al.

NASA/UMD/A.Wilson et al.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/UCSB/P.Ogle et al.

Optical: NASA/STScI/A.Capetti et al

From the formation of galaxies to the deaths of stars,

black holes are an integral part of our universes history.
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Credits

This slide show was created for:

Inside Einsteins Universe
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Black hole images in this presentation are courtesy:
NASAs Chandra X-ray Center at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
To learn more about black holes, visit:
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