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We’ve imaged a black hole’s magnetic field for the first time – here’s what it reveals – The Conversation UK
New research can help explain how black holes can produce powerful jets.
There was a lot of excitement when the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration showed the world the first ever image of a black hole back in April 2019. Weighing in at 6.5 million times the mass of our Sun, this supermassive black hole is located in the galaxy Messier 87, or M87, some 55 million light years away from Earth.
This was the first direct evidence that black holes exist. It also provided an extraordinary test of Einsteins theory of gravity and its underlying notions of space and time probing…
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