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Stellar black hole - Artist view

author: ESO/Novapix

reference: a-blh02-00034

Image Size 300 DPI: 42 * 31 cm

This artist’s impression depicts a stellar-mass black hole. The black hole has a mass of about twenty times the mass of the Sun and is associated with a Wolf–Rayet star : a star that will become a black hole itself. The black hole is stripping matter away from the star as they orbit each other.

Keywords for this photo:

2010 - ASTRONOMY - BINARY STAR - BLACK HOLE - DISK - GRAVITY - ILLUSTRATION - JET - STAR - STELLAR BLACK HOLE - WOLF-RAYET -