Astronomers snap 1st-ever direct image of a black hole blasting out a powerful jet (photo)
An image of a powerful jet emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87.The historic first image of the M87 central supermassive black hole, which has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the sun and is located 55 million light years from Earth, was taken by the collaboration in 2017 and unveiled two years later.
"We know that jets are ejected from the region surrounding black holes, but we still do not fully understand how this actually happens," study team member Ru-Sen Lu, of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, said in the same statement."To study this directly, we need to observe the origin of the jet as close as possible to the black hole."
As matter whips around the supermassive black hole at near-light speed thanks to the tremendous gravitational influence of this cosmic monster, the material heats up and glows. The new image of the M87 supermassive black hole also differs from the EHT telescope image as it shows the region in longer wavelengths of light, which affects what astronomers can see in this region.
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