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A computer simulation of two black holes orbiting each other, with accretion disks whose images are highly distorted by gravitational lensing.

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English: This computer generated image shows the warped view of a pair of

supermassive black holes orbiting each other, and each is surrounded by its own accretion disk of hot gas. The larger black hole (red disk) is almost directly behind a companion black hole (blue disk) with half its mass. The gravity of the foreground black hole transforms its partner's appearance into a surreal collection of highly distorted arcs. Insets highlight areas where both black holes produce complete but warped images of their companions. Light from the accretion disks produces these self-similar images as it travels through the tangled fabric of space and time near both black holes.

Credit: Jeremy Schnittman, Brian Powell, and Scott Wiessinger/NASA's

Goddard Space Flight Center
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Author Jeremy Schnittman

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