The first black hole to ever be directly imaged has now been seen in greater detail, revealing the disc of matter falling into it and the jet shooting out of its centre
A new image of a supermassive black hole has revealed more of the disc of matter falling into it and the powerful winds created by that process. The black hole in question – M87* – was the first black hole to beM87* is about 55 million light years away, and it lies at the centre of an enormous galaxy called M87.
Now, another team of researchers has employed a network of 10 radio telescopes to take another image, using a longer wavelength of radio emissions. They spotted a similar doughnut shape, but it was about 50 per cent thicker than the one seen by the EHT.“Frankly speaking, I did not expect to see the ring with these observations, while we expected we might see the outer part of the accretion flow,” saysat Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
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