Giant Black Hole Reveals Unexpected Phenomena
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New Image Reveals Dynamic changes Around Supermassive Black Hole M87*
The Horizon Telescope Events (EHT) has just released the latest image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 Galaxy. This black hole, known as M87*, was the first black hole ever photographed by humans, a landmark achievement in April 2019.
The latest image of M87*, located approximately 55 million light-years from Earth, reveals a surprising phenomenon: changes in the direction of polarization of the magnetic field surrounding the black hole over a four-year period.Observations also detected bursts of material emanating from around M87*, with the base of these bursts appearing directly connected to the shining ring at the outer edge, or the “horizon of the black hole.”
This discovery provides new insights into the behavior of extreme material around supermassive black holes – cosmic giants with masses millions to billions of times that of our Sun, residing at the centers of large galaxies.
“The fact that the pattern of polarization changed direction from 2017 to 2021 was truly unexpected,” said Jongho Park, a member of the EHT team and a researcher at kyunghee University, South Korea.”This challenges our model and shows that there are still manny things we don’t understand about these powerful objects.”