Tag: accretion disk
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A Cosmic Blowtorch: M87* Black Hole Launches 3,000-Light-Year Jet Revealed by EHT
Headline Discovery: A 3,000-Light-Year Jet Emerges from a Shadow In a landmark study that bridges imaging with dynamic astrophysical processes, astronomers have linked the famed shadow of the supermassive black hole M87* to a colossal jet stretching 3,000 light-years. Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), researchers tracked the jet’s source through a combination of high-resolution…
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The First Black Hole We Saw Changes Its Magnetic Weather: M87*’s Dynamic Magnetism
M87*: A Supermassive Black Hole With Dynamic Magnetic Weather When scientists released the first image of a black hole in 2019, the focus was on the shadow and the surrounding glow. But new time-series data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) reveal something equally dramatic and unexpected: the magnetic field near M87*’s edge is not…