Supernova explosion with black hole kick-out (artist's impression)
This video shows a black hole and its yellow companion star being sent out on a out on a long journey through the Milky Way galaxy by the explosive kick of a supernova - one of the Universe's most titanic events. New observations made by the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to measure the motion of this black-hole system across the sky using images taken in 1995 and 2001. The results are surprising: the black hole streaks across the plane of our Milky Way at a velocity 4 times that of stars around it! This is the first direct link between black holes and the supernovae that create them.
Credit:
European Space Agency, NASA and Felix Mirabel (the French Atomic Energy Commission & the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics/Conicet of Argentina)
About the Video
| Id: | heic0211e |
| Release date: | 18 November 2002, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0211 |
| Duration: | 12s |
About the Object
| Type: | • 3D Animations Videos • Stars Images/Videos • Quasars/AGN/Black Hole Images/Videos |
