2021 April 16 - The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2021-04-16

In today's image, we see a simulation showing the orbits of two supermassive blackholes as they orbit around each other. We can see the accretion disks as they appear distorted by the strong gravitational fields of the black holes. 

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