{"product_id":"atomic-faceplates-cygnus-x1-faceplate-dock-bezel","title":"Atomic Faceplates-Cygnus X1 Faceplate \u0026 Dock Bezel","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe first black hole anyone ever proved was real.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1964, a rocket-borne X-ray detector swept across the sky and found something that shouldn't have been there — a source of X-ray emission so intense it couldn't be explained by any known stellar process. They called it Cygnus X-1. It was the first X-ray binary ever catalogued. And for a decade, no one could agree on what it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Hawking bet Kip Thorne it wasn't a black hole. In 1990, he conceded the bet. Cygnus X-1 is a black hole — roughly 21 solar masses, pulling material from a blue supergiant companion star at a rate that generates temperatures in the millions of degrees. The accretion disk glows. The jets extend light-years. The event horizon swallows everything that crosses it and returns nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn long-exposure photography, the Cygnus region runs deep violet — the ionized hydrogen of the surrounding nebula — with gold and amber at the shock fronts where energy meets interstellar gas. The colors of something violent, seen from a safe distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cygnus X-1 Faceplate\u003c\/strong\u003e captures that palette in a deep violet faceplate with gold iridescence. The iridescence shifts with the angle of light, the way the accretion disk changes character depending on where you're standing relative to the jet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeep violet with gold iridescence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColor shifts with viewing angle\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21 solar masses. One event horizon. No return.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atomic Faceplates","offers":[{"title":"5th \/ 5.5th Gen","offer_id":52795447705892,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6th \/ 7th Gen","offer_id":53329107943716,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/4937\/1940\/files\/IMG_7335.heic?v=1775768851","url":"https:\/\/atomicfaceplates.com\/products\/atomic-faceplates-cygnus-x1-faceplate-dock-bezel","provider":"Atomic Faceplates","version":"1.0","type":"link"}