The discovery took many years – the observation itself, which resulted in the picture, took place in 2018. Several telescopes located in different parts of the Earth took part in it. By joining forces with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, the Greenland Telescope, and the Global Millimeter VLBI Array of telescopes from Europe and North America, one virtual telescope was created, much more powerful than its individual parts. This allowed astronomers to look at a black hole 55 million years away in a detail never seen before.
The new image may help to gain more information about how black holes behave and what allows them to release energetic streams of material into space, according to scientists.
Like billions of Suns
The object they were watching is extremely far away, but at the same time it is unimaginably large and massive. Just imagining the dimensions of our Sun is not easy – and the black hole at the galactic center of M87 is 6.5 billion times more massive.
2023-04-27 11:30:33
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