Prof Heino Falcke on Nostr: News Alert: New image of the famous supermassive black hole in M87. The image was ...
News Alert: New image of the famous supermassive black hole in M87. The image was taken a year later and reveals the same rings size and shadow shape, confirming our results from 2019! The intensity maximum has rotated however. Not surprising, since matter rotates around a black hole. It is actually now, where you expect it to be.
It quacks like a BH, it looks like a BH, it is a BH!
Paper in A&A:
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2024/01/aa47932-23/aa47932-23.html#astrodon #blackhole #astronomy #astrophysics #eventhorizontelescope
Published at
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