The first image of the black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 has been 'remastered' to reveal forces at work around the behemoth.
, which consumes so little material that scientists have compared it to a human eating one grain of rice every million years.
, Goddi et al.; NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team ; VLBA , Kravchenko et al.; J. C. Algaba, I. Martí-Vidal) The new remastered image is the latest in a series of stunning black hole-related achievements for the Event Horizon Telescope. The planet-size observatory's work is allowing researchers to investigate supermassive black holes — once considered impossible to visualize because no light can escape from the other side of the event horizon — in incredible detail.
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