03-24-2021, 07:44 PM
An updated, clearer black hole photo from the 2019 Event Horizon project has been released. It's a beautifully detailed image revealing a magnetic field swirl. Some background and comments on the new rendering:
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope project — a network of eight radio telescopes around the world that includes the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Submillimeter Array on Maunakea — made history by capturing the first image of a black hole.
The same project today released a second picture of the same black hole with more visible detail.
... the new image reveals a swirl pattern that shows for the first time the structure of the intense magnetic field distortions around the black hole, said Jessica Dempsey, deputy director of the East Asian Observatory and JCMT.
“It’s exciting for use to really get to drill down into what these magnetic fields are doing.”
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...le-detail/
In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope project — a network of eight radio telescopes around the world that includes the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Submillimeter Array on Maunakea — made history by capturing the first image of a black hole.
The same project today released a second picture of the same black hole with more visible detail.
... the new image reveals a swirl pattern that shows for the first time the structure of the intense magnetic field distortions around the black hole, said Jessica Dempsey, deputy director of the East Asian Observatory and JCMT.
“It’s exciting for use to really get to drill down into what these magnetic fields are doing.”
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...le-detail/