Scientists celebrate a groundbreaking image which shows the fiery side of a donut-shaped black hole.
abc.net.au/news/black-hole-space-star-image/102272272Scientists have unveiled the first picture showing the violent events unfolding around black holes, including the launching point of a colossal jet of high-energy particles shooting outward into space.Scientists say the image is the beginning of an exciting new era in space researchThe new image was obtained using 16 telescopes at various locations on Earth that essentially created a planet-sized observational dish.
Those images, which showed just the darkness of the black hole and a ring of bright material plunging into it, and the new one all arise from observations using multiple radio telescopes worldwide.The image of the M87 black hole on the left was generated in 2019, and the one on the right, using the same dataset, in 2023.
The new image shows how the base of such a jet connects with material swirling around the black hole in a ring-like structure.It shows the base of the jet of hot plasma, a fuzzy ring of light from hot plasma falling into the black hole, and a central dark area — sort of a donut hole — created by the black hole's presence.
"The image underlines for the first time the connection between the accretion flow near the central supermassive black hole and the origin of the jet," said astrophysicist Ru-Sen Lu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature.
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