Astronomers capture new polarized view of a black hole
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Scientists from the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration announced Wednesday that they had been able to map the magnetic fields around a black hole using polarized light waves for the first time, releasing a stunning image of the supermassive object at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy.
The researchers published their most recent observations in two separate papers in The Astrophysical Journal, which they say are key to understanding how the M87 galaxy is able to "launch energetic jets from its core." From data first collected in 2017, the scientists discovered that a significant fraction of the light at the black hole's near-horizon region was polarized.More Related News