Astronomers image for the first time a black hole’s shadow together with a powerful jet

Astronomers image for the first time a black hole’s shadow together with a powerful jet

26 April, 2023

For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet expelled from it. The observations were done in 2018 with telescopes from the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and...

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