# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CIGgYmllVUJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733783-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d828d73972.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-11-27T16:55:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Yeah, we celebrate Black Friday…. #BlackHoleFriday that is!⁣
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Let’s go back to basics with some Black Hole 101: A black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. A black hole’s “surface,” called its event horizon, defines the boundary where the velocity needed to escape > the speed of light, which is the speed limit of the cosmos. Matter and radiation fall in, but they can’t get out.⁣
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This image is an artist's concept of a tidal disruption event that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, which reacts by launching a jet extending hundreds of thousands of light-years into space.⁣
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Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF⁣
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#BlackFriday #Space #BlackHole #Universe

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