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English: This image shows the jet and shadow of the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy together for the first time. The observations were obtained with telescopes from the Global Millimetre VLBI Array (GMVA), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which ESO is a partner, and the Greenland Telescope. This image gives scientists the context needed to understand how the powerful jet is formed. The new observations also revealed that the black hole’s ring, shown here in the inset, is 50% larger than the ring observed at shorter radio wavelengths by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This suggests that in the new image we see more of the material that is falling towards the black hole than what we could see with the EHT.[1]

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  1. ↑ CAS (7 July 2023). "Black Hole Unmasked: Astronomers Capture First Image of Accretion Ring and Relativistic Jet". SciTechDaily. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved on 8 July 2023.
Date 26 April 2023 (upload date)
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Author R.-S. Lu (SHAO), E. Ros (MPIfR), S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
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