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Trinary black hole - Artist view

author: Don Dixon/Novapix

reference: a-blh02-00014

Image Size 300 DPI: 28 * 18 cm

A black hole rips apart two companion stars in this private commission. The cores of two red giant stars spiral toward destruction. Sputtering explosions of infalling gas are blasted into space as the three objects dance around their ever-shifting center of mass.

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Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - BINARY STAR - BLACK HOLE - DISK - DUST - GRAVITY - ILLUSTRATION - RED GIANT - STAR - STELLAR BLACK HOLE - TRIPLE STAR -