Revealing hidden black holes with NASA's NuSTAR 'x-ray eyes'

NASA's NuSTAR uses high-energy X-rays to search for hidden supermassive black holes. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab; footage from “A Journey to the Center of the Milky Way: Stellar Orbits around its Central Black Hole”: data provided by Andrea Ghez and the UCLA Galactic Center Group, data obtained with the W. M. Keck Telescopes, visualization by NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab, permission granted by NCSA and additional use requires additional NCSA permission;footage from “Zoom into Our Black Hole Seen in a New Light”: ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration