The most intimate portrait yet of a black hole
An image provided by ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al., shows part of the jet in Messier 87, 6,000 light-years long, shown in polarized light. Two years of analyzing the polarized light from a galaxys giant black hole has given scientists a glimpse at how quasars might arise. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al., via The New York Times.
by Dennis Overbye
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, an international team of radio astronomers that has been staring down the throat of a giant black hole for years, has published what it called the most intimate portrait yet of the forces that give rise to quasars, the luminous fountains of energy that can reach across interstellar and intergalactic space and disrupt the growth of distant galaxies.