Postcard from the edge... of a supermassive black hole

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The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image.

Radio telescope antennas of the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter Array project at the Chajnantor plateau, in Atacama desert, Chile.PARIS - The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image, this time capturing the polarised light swirling around the same star-eating monster's magnetic fields.

"Activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy." "The polarisation of light carries information that allows us to better understand the physics behind the image we saw in April 2019," explained co-author Ivan Marti-Vidal, a researcher at the University of Valencia.

 

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