Scientists Set Out to Capture a Black Hole – an Explosion Photobombed
M87, located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a supermassive black hole partially because its central black hole is actively slurping up material from a huge cloud of material around it.
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Huge black hole on fire, emits gamma rays billions times stronger than visible lightThe first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...
A powerful gamma-ray flare from the M87* black hole challenges current understanding of particle acceleration near black holes.
Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally ...
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...
The jet emerging from M87’s supermassive black hole is tens of millions of times larger than its event horizon. In 2019, the ...
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Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...
Light curve of the gamma-ray flare (bottom) and collection of quasi-simulated images of the M87 jet (top) at various scales ...
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