Scientists might be just weeks away from taking the first real picture of a black holePeter Farquhar
For years, and for all the mounting scientific evidence, black holes have remained marooned in the imaginations of artists and the algorithms of splashy computer models of the kind used in Christopher Nolan's outer-space epic...
This isn’t an artistic rendering of the Democrat Party. This is the first ever snapshot of a black hole. NASA used a gizmo called the Event Horizon Telescope (a collaborative venture) to capture the image. The linked article is pretty interesting....
According to the astronomers, the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 was a far easier target to image, compared to the black hole at the core of the Milky Way. This was due to the speed at which these objects are moving, relative to the telescope's...
Sera Markoff, professor of theoretical astrophysics and astroparticle physics at the University of Amsterdam, said that the EHT images will be the first real bird's eye view which helps understand how the black hole can profoundly impact the largest structures in the universe. ...
First-generation black-hole-forming supernovae and the metal abundance pattern of a very iron-poor star It has been proposed theoretically that the first generation of stars in the Universe (population III) would be as massive as 100 solar masses (100 M(O)), ... H Umeda,K Nomoto - 《...
The image of a dark core encircled by a flame-orange halo of white-hot plasma looks like any number of artists' renderings over the last 30 years. But this time, it's the real deal. "The history of science will be divided into the time before the image, and the time after the imag...
The ring surrounds a dark circle, which is the black hole itself. The image matches whattheoretical physicistsand indeed Hollywood directors, imagine black holes to look like. But having their first real picture will enable researchers to learn more about the nature of space and time andultimately...
Image of the galactic center. For the interferometric GRAVITY observations the star IRS 16C was used as a reference star, the actual target was the star S2. The position of the center, which harbors the black hole known as Sgr A*, with 4 million solar masses, is marked by the orange cr...
Sera Markoff, professor of theoretical astrophysics and astroparticle physics at the University of Amsterdam, said that the EHT images will be the first real bird's eye view which helps understand how the black hole can profoundly impact the largest structures in the universe. ...