Tag: accretion disk
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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…