A team of astronomers captured a high-energy jet firing out of a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times larger than the Sun.
Astronomers captured the first direct image of a supermassive black hole spewing a powerful jet out into the cosmos.
The supermassive black hole is at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, or M87, roughly 55 million light-years from Earth. It is 6.5 billion times larger than the Sun.hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope project in 2019, this new image was possible thanks to the combined data of multiple radio telescopes.
The observations of the M87 black hole and the powerful jet of material were taken back in 2018. Since then, the scientists behind the new image have been hard at work combining data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, the Greenland Telescope, and the Global Millimetre VLBI Array of telescopes across Europe and North America.
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