Study Reveals Unobserved Structures, Impact of Black Hole on its Surroundings
Written by AZoQuantumApr 15 2021
The first-ever image of a black hole the supermassive black hole found at the core of the M87 galaxy was captured by an international collaboration of researchers in 2019 by using a worldwide collection of radio telescopes known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).
Image Credit: EHT Collaboration, NASA/Swift, NASA/Fermi, Caltech-NuSTAR, CXC, CfA-VERITAS, MAGIC, and HESS.
The M87 galaxy is located nearly 55 million light-years from Earth. This long-awaited breakthrough was a significant scientific landmark. But any image at a single wavelength can offer only a partial picture of the whole phenomenon.