Wolf-Rayet star and black hole. Artwork of the environment around ULX-1, an ultraluminous X-ray source located in a spiral arm of the galaxy M101. At

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Wolf-Rayet star and black hole. Artwork of the environment around ULX-1, an ultraluminous X-ray source located in a spiral arm of the galaxy M101. At lower right is a stellar-mass black hole with an accretion disk (yellow). This is formed as gas from a Wolf-Rayet star (blue, upper left) falls inwards towards the black hole. M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, is 21 million light years distant in the constellation of Ursa Major. This artwork is based on research at the Gemini Observatory published in 2013.

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Size: 3366px × 2601px
Photo credit: © GEMINI OBSERVATORY/AURA, ARTWORK BY LYNETTE COOK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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