A Dash Against the Green
March 21, 2016
Diana Battefeld, A Dash Against the Green, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Einstein Rings
February 23, 2016
Diana Battefeld, Strong Gravitational Lensing, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Our Milky Way
February 23, 2016
Diana Battefeld, Our Milky Way, 2016 [Watercolor on Paper].
Just a Blob of Gas in Space
January 13, 2016
Diana Battefeld, Just a Blob of Gas in Space, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. Planetary Nebula NGC 2371 – This blob of gas shows the remains of a star that ended its evolutionary life as a white dwarf (this is the fate of our sun in about 5 billion years). The star in the middle is …
Black Hole Jet
December 11, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Genie, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After a composite image NASA/CXC/CfA D.Evans et al, NASA/STScI, STFC/JBO/MERLIN. This painting depicts a jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, which deflects it. This false color image combines X-rays (purple), optical and ultraviolet (red and orange) as …
View of Our Galaxy After Horizon Crossing a Schwarzschild Black Hole
December 3, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Horizon Crossed, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After a private correspondence with A. Hamilton, a world’s expert on black hole simulations. A common view of what an observer would see if she crossed the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole and lowers herself towards a singularity is the following: as she approaches a singularity, …
Time Machine
November 27, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Time Machine, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of the gravitationally lensed galaxy SDP.81. Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA/ESA Hubble, T. Hunter (NRAO). The path light takes is influenced by matter, similar to the orbits of planets around the sun. If light passes a heavy object, its path is bent …
Dandelion
November 19, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Dandelion, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After the Planetary nebula NGC 2392 also known as the Eskimo Nebula. NGC 2392 was originally discovered by William Herschel in 1787 and was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in 2000. It is located within our galaxy 5 000 light years …
A Rotating Cosmic String Loop Detaches from its Parent String
November 17, 2015
Diana Battefeld, The Effects of a Rotating Cosmic String Loop on the Surrounding Plasma, 2015 [soft chalk on paper]. After the concepts published by A. Anthonisen et al and D. Battefeld et al. A rotating cosmic string loop has detached from its parent string. In the picture, the left part of the string moves downward, …