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The astronauts who first gave the world a glimpse of the black hole have now released another stunning image – but this time of polarized light revolving around it.
Prior to this, it had never been possible to measure polarity so close to the edge of a black hole. Polarization causes light waves to vibrate in one plane.
Due to the dense subject of a black hole, it creates an area of gravity from which even light cannot escape, making black holes challenging to see.
But the data found by the Horizon Event Telescope (EHT), which first made the 2019 image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87, took several years to process and analyze.
The co-author of the report on the new black hole image, Monika Moscibrodzka, an assistant professor at Radboud University in the Netherlands, told AFP: “We now see the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields are carried around black holes. “
There are two types of black holes. One of them is a supernova, formed when the center of a large star falls on itself. These species can be 20 times larger than the sun but are tiny in space.
The other type is referred to as a supermassive black hole, one at the center of the Milky Way and most galaxies. The types of black holes are at least a million times larger than the sun.
Source (s): AFP
Source (s): AFP