Event Horizon 'Scope
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We image black holes (M87* (2019), Sgr A* (2022)) with an Earth-sized telescope
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Feryal Ozel
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#blackholeweek 🕳️ doesn't get any better than this!
Seeing the unseeable isn't an easy job. In fact, it's an Earth-sized task! 🌎 But EHT has always been up to the challenge. 🦾
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It wouldn't be #BlackHoleWeek if we didn't talk about M87.
This is one of Hubble's most impactful discoveries – confirming that a black-hole-powered stream of material is jetting out from the galaxy M87’s core.
Go inside this image with Dr. Padi Boyd to find out more!
Kicking off #blackholeweek with some of our fave images of black holes (we're partial) over the past 5 years.
Top L: First image of M87*, Top R: M87* in polarized light, Bottom R: Milky Way Galaxy's black hole SgrA*, Bottom L: SgrA* in polarized light.
Credit: EHT Collaboration
#OTD 5 years ago, the Event Horizon 'Scope (EHT) shared the first image ever of a #BlackHole !
The black hole was M87*, and since then, the EHT also imaged Sgr A* (the black hole at the heart of our galaxy) and both objects in polarised light.
Can you say which image matches each? 1/
#OTD in 2019, Event Horizon 'Scope “snapped” the first image of a black hole — M87* at the center of galaxy M87. Scientists have studied it for years, because of its stunning jet. Watch this zoom-in of M87 with visible, X-ray, and radio images, ending on that historic black hole image.
+++Breaking News+++
Team Magnetic Fields defeats Team Gravity in the cosmic tug of war in the nucleus of the radio galaxy Perseus A!
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#radiogalaxy #blackhole #plasmajets
