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Microquasar GRS 1915+105. Artwork

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-blh02-00009

Date

2006-11-10

This artist's conception shows the binary system GRS 1915+105, which shows evidence for a wave of spacetime in its accretion disk. A 10 solar mass black hole at the center of the disk pulls gas from a nearby companion star. The gas spiraling into the black hole heats so much that it emits X-ray radiation.