Astronomers have captured for the first time the shadow of a black hole and the powerful jet of material emerging from it in a newly released image.
The supermassive black hole is at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. The observations were initially made in 2018 by combining the capabilities of multiple telescopes.
In the new image, the connection between the base of the jet and the matter swirling around the supermassive black hole can be seen. Previous observations have shown the jet and black hole separately, including the first direct image of a black hole, released in 2019. "At this wavelength, we can see how the jet emerges from the ring of emission around the central supermassive black hole," said study coauthor Thomas Krichbaum, a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in a statement.
The central region is darker and larger, surrounded by a bright ring as hot gas falls into the black hole.
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