![131-Black-Hole [131] Black Hole — This astronomical painting illustrates a high-mass X-ray binary system where a blue giant star is losing mass to a black hole. The stellar material is pulled away in a visible stream, spiraling into a luminous red accretion disk that surrounds the gravitational singularity against a dark star field. ; acrylic, 1980; © Don Dixon](131-black-hole-accretion-disk-blue-giant-dixon.jpg)
[131] Black Hole — This astronomical painting illustrates a high-mass X-ray binary system where a blue giant star is losing mass to a black hole. The stellar material is pulled away in a visible stream, spiraling into a luminous red accretion disk that surrounds the gravitational singularity against a dark star field. ; acrylic, 1980; © Don Dixon
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![131-Black-Hole [131] Black Hole — This astronomical painting illustrates a high-mass X-ray binary system where a blue giant star is losing mass to a black hole. The stellar material is pulled away in a visible stream, spiraling into a luminous red accretion disk that surrounds the gravitational singularity against a dark star field. ; acrylic, 1980; © Don Dixon](../index.html#img=131-black-hole-accretion-disk-blue-giant-dixon.jpg)