# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BqiAwvXAj16
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11734810-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/3451316d00.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-11-23T17:36:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Searching for those two-for-one #BlackFriday deals? We’ve got one of galactic proportions for you in honor of #BlackHoleFriday. Here’s a look at two supermassive black holes spiraling toward a collision.

In this supercomputer simulation, three regions of light-emitting gas glow as the black holes merge, all connected by streams of hot gas.  The disks and streams of gas produce a ton of UV light and X-rays. There’s an empty circle between the two black holes that wasn’t modeled in this version of the simulation because it needed more processing power — this version took the Blue Waters supercomputer 46 days on 9,600 computing cores!

Credit: NASA

#nasa #space #blackhole #blackfriday2018 #supermassive #astronomy #astrophysics #computermodeling #supercomputers #ultraviolet #xrays #light

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blackhole, light, astronomy, supercomputers, ultraviolet, nasa, xrays, blackholefriday, supermassive, space, blackfriday, astrophysics, computermodeling, blackfriday2018

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