In 2019, when astronomers captured the first image of a black hole’s shadow a bright orange doughnut-shaped halo created by the black hole’s intense gravity bending light around it it was rightly hailed as a breakthrough.
Now, I have joined the Event Horizon Telescope team in following up on their earlier achievement, by creating a new image showing jets of plasma being ejected from the core of a different supermassive black hole, at the centre of the galaxy Centaurus A.
Centaurus A’s black hole is about 120 times less massive than that of M87, the galaxy where the black hole halo was spotted (and which also has its own set of plasma jets). So no black hole shadow was expected or seen in Centaurus A’s case.
MIL-Evening Report: A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole
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New image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole
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