| Artist's conception of black hole GRO J1655-40. There is a flash of light because scientists think that the black hole is spinning. The red is the matter caught in its gravitational pull. |
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| An artist's diagram of a black hole pulling matter from the normal star HDE 226868 |
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| Too Close to a Black Hole |
| Credit & Copyright: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) |
| Two images of the same piece of sky, both contain the constellation Orion. The image on the contains a black hole in the center. In the constellation Orion, in the image on the right, the belt is distorted. The reason is that the black hole has the ability to draw light and objects towards it. The light is pulled toward the black hole and then bent back to us. That is why the two images look totally different. |
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| Animation of a journey to a black hole. |
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