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COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Collection
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nasaNAS~12~12
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Collection
Collection
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Record 
Title:
Hidden Black Holes
title
Hidden Black Holes
Title
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Description:
Astronomers have probed the deep sky with NASA's three Great Observatories for hidden black holes and come to the conclusion that most black holes cannot be seen in visible images. The image on the left from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows 1/200 of the full field of sky known as the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS. It highlights three X-ray sources (circled) and many other galaxies. The image on the right is made up of data from Hubble and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and shows the same region. The two "hard" X-ray sources (sources detected only at the shortest X-ray wavelengths and indicated here with yellow circles) are very faint in the visible but much more luminous in the infrared. This data suggests that the X-ray sources are black holes hidden behind a screen of dust.
description
Astronomers have probed the deep sky with NASA's three Great Observatories for hidden black holes and come to the conclusion that most black holes cannot be seen in visible images. The image on the left from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows 1/200 of the full field of sky known as the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS. It highlights three X-ray sources (circled) and many other galaxies. The image on the right is made up of data from Hubble and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and shows the same region. The two "hard" X-ray sources (sources detected only at the shortest X-ray wavelengths and indicated here with yellow circles) are very faint in the visible but much more luminous in the infrared. This data suggests that the X-ray sources are black holes hidden behind a screen of dust.
Description
false
Release Date:
2004/06/01
release_date
2004/06/01
Release Date
false
Press Release:
Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories To Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects [ http://www.spitzer.… ]
press_release
Spitzer Leads NASA's Great Observatories To Uncover Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2004-10/release.shtml ]
Press Release
false
Release Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Yale
release_credit
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Yale
Release Credit
false
Object type:
Black Holes
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Black Holes
Object type
false
Instrument:
IRAC
instrument
IRAC
Instrument
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facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_what
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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false
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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false
Image #:
ssc2004-10c
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ssc2004-10c
Image #
false
original url:
http://sscws1.ipac.…
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http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2004-10c
original url
false
UID:
SPD-SPITZ-ssc2004-10c
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SPD-SPITZ-ssc2004-10c
UID
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