This is an artist's conception of the event horizon surrounding the object, Cygnus XR-1.
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Courtesy of STScI, NASA, ESA
Spiraling into A Black Hole
News story originally written on January 16, 2001
Everyone likes hearing about
black holes. They are so mysterious! Scientists using
the Chandra X-ray Observatory and
the Hubble Space Telescope have found material spiraling into black holes!
Both teams found what they think to be event horizons around black holes.
Event horizons are the point around a black hole from which nothing (not even light!) can escape! Only black holes have event horizons, so finding an event horizon is finding a black hole.
Use the links below to learn more about these findings.
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