This image is from a computer animation illustrating a spinning black hole. The wide-angle view in the left image shows the black hole and a nearby blue giant star in a binary (double) system. Celestial objects in binary systems orbit closely around their common center of mass. In this image, the black hole is located to the left of a blue giant star. The powerful gravity of the black hole pulls gas from the blue giant, which forms a tail-like structure as it streams toward the black hole.
