# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BRI3nbshSXT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736151-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/abcfa8d622.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-03-02T14:09:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Hot, hot, hot! For the first time, scientists have measured rapidly varying temperatures in hot gas emanating from around a black hole. These ultrafast "winds" are created by disks of matter surrounding black holes. The winds, according to new measurements of a nearby supermassive black hole, can heat up and cool down in the span of just a few hours. 
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with X-ray emission emanating from its inner region (pink) and ultrafast winds (light purple lines) streaming from the surrounding disk.

Credits: ESA (europeanspaceagency) 
#nasa #nustar #blackhole #space #nasabeyond #astronomy #science

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astronomy, nustar, nasabeyond, science, nasa, space, blackhole

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