The ring of golden photons reveals the gravitational effect of black holes
Newly redesigned image revealed for the black hole In the core of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, photons are scattered around the colossal gravitational effect of this object.
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The black hole at the heart of M87, which is located 55 million light-years from Earth, was the subject of the Event Horizon Telescope, the first-ever image of a black hole, released in 2019. The image closely resembles theoretical predictions of what supermassive black holes should be. Their immediate environment appears to be a golden ring of material racing around the outer edge of a black hole, where the light-trapping surface is called the event horizon, but is hidden by this material. The photon looks golden.
This is the ring that researchers have long sought to unravel. Avery Broderick, an astrophysicist at the Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo in Canada and lead researcher on the project, said: “We turned off the searchlight to see the fireflies. We were able to do something profound — to resolve a fundamental signal of gravity around Black hole.”
The team used an imaging algorithm built into the EHT to isolate and extract the glowing golden ring from telescope observations of the M87 black hole, which has a mass of about 6.5 billion suns.
These jets are created from materials around black holes Because the supermassive black hole in M87 is a voracious eater of matter, it blows these jets repeatedly, in contrast to the much smaller black hole at the heart of the Milky Way and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* ), which consumes so little material that scientists have compared it to a human who eats one grain of rice every million years.
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