We've never seen a black hole in this much detail.
of a black hole. It was hailed as a major breakthrough by the scientific community.
The new image, released by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration — an international team of scientists with over 300 members using a global network of telescopes to make unprecedented observations — shows the black hole in polarized light. In other words, it's the black hole's signature of magnetic fields.
"This work is a major milestone: the polarization of light carries information that allows us to better understand the physics behind the image we saw in April 2019, which was not possible before," added Iván Martí-Vidal, another coordinator of the group and researcher at the Universitat de València, Spain.
The new image could significantly further our understanding of black holes, particularly when it comes to the energetic jets spewing from its core, behavior that's still a mystery to astronomers.
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