NASA published a video clip for the first time, simulating, showing two gigantic black holes, one of which is equivalent to 200 million times the mass of the sun, and the second is half its size, as they revolve around each other in a spectacular dance, in which each of them bends the light emanating from the hot gas vortex surrounding each Of them as shiny and shiny rings.

The bending of the light emitted by the fiery gas rings around the two gigantic black holes due to their superhuman attraction when they pass next to each other, makes them appear as bright, crooked arcs, as a result of the bending of light through the fabric of time and space surrounding the two holes.

Gas vortex

Due to the phenomenon of the super-gravitational lens, the gas vortex around each of them appears as an oval disk with a double dent (resembling a helmet on the top and the circle from below), where the bright hot gas vortex surrounding the larger hole appears as a red disk, and the vortex of the smaller hole is like a blue disk.

As soon as one passes in front of the other, the gravitational pull of the front hole causes the second hole to turn into a series of light arcs that change rapidly, as a result of the bending of light as it passes through the interwoven fabric of time and space near the two holes.

Phenomena like these help scientists visualize the astonishing results of the supergravity lens phenomenon.

When viewed from the side, these disks appear brighter on one side, but the force of gravity warps the paths of light emitted from different regions of the disks, making them look like crooked or dented disks.

The brightness of the disk changes due to the rapid movement of gas near the black hole via the so-called Doppler phenomenon, which reinforces what Einstein's theory of relativity described as the effect that causes the brightness of the side that rotates towards the viewer or the observer, and dims it on the side that is rotating away.

The dance of black holes

In this video, the largest black hole, which is 200 times the mass of the sun (the red disk), looks like it is inside the smaller hole, which is half the size of the larger hole (the blue disk), due to the reflection phenomenon caused by the supergravity lens and the bending of light through the fabric of time And location.

A crooked view of the largest black hole (the red disk) passing behind the smaller black hole (the blue disk) (NASA)

The allure of a front (blue) black hole causes the larger (red) hole to appear as a surreal collection of crooked and twisted arches.

These aberrations occur when light passes through the intertwining fabric of space and time near the two giant holes.

In a scene from the top, the image of the larger hole appears as a line on the bright ring of light in the smaller hole, which makes this phenomenon when the light from the larger hole bends at an angle of 90 degrees, which means that we see an image of the edge of the red disk, and at the same time we see it from the top.

A secondary image shows the blue disk at the edge of the bright ring of light in the larger hole.

When looking at the two disks from above, the reflection of the larger black hole appears on one of the rings of the smaller hole (NASA) disk.

Discover supercomputer

"One of the unique aspects of this simulation is the nature of the reciprocal reflection of the images produced by the gravitational lenses. Zooming in on one of the two holes shows contrasting, tortuous and curved images of the other," said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at Goddard Space Flight Center and the designer of the video.

Schnittmann designed this simulation by calculating the path traveled by the rays of light from the dented disks around the two holes in their path through the fabric of space and time curved around the two black holes.

And because a modern desktop computer would have taken 10 years to perform the calculations required to make video frames, Schnittman collaborated with Brian B. Powell, a data scientist at the Goddard Center to use the Discover supercomputer at NASA's Climate Simulation Center, using only 2% of the processors. Discover, which numbered 129,000 processors, these math operations took an entire day.

Scientists expect that in the foreseeable future, they will be able to observe the gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of time and space - that arise when two giant black holes orbit each other in spiral paths, like the two that Schnittmann photographed in this video.