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Magnetic Flip Seen Around First Photographed Black Hole Pushes “Models To The Limit”three images of the ring of light around the black hole which is just a shadow taken on april 11 17, april 21 2018, and april 18, 2021. in the first two images the lines are going into one direction, more markedly in the first image. in the third image they are going the opposite.

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Magnetic Flip Seen Around First Photographed Black Hole Pushes “Models To The Limit”three images of the ring of light around the black hole which is just a shadow taken on april 11 17, april 21 2018, and april 18, 2021. in the first two images the lines are going into one direction, more markedly in the first image. in the third image they are going the opposite.
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Magnetic Flip Seen Around First Photographed Black Hole Pushes “Models To The Limit”

clock-iconSeptember 16, 2025
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First-Ever Photographed Black Hole Shows Dramatic Changes In Follow-Up ObservationsA fuzzy orange donut is the ring around M87*. There's two of them one from 2017 and the other from 2018. The one from 2018 is much brighter at around 5 oclock direction.

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First-Ever Photographed Black Hole Shows Dramatic Changes In Follow-Up ObservationsA fuzzy orange donut is the ring around M87*. There's two of them one from 2017 and the other from 2018. The one from 2018 is much brighter at around 5 oclock direction.
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First-Ever Photographed Black Hole Shows Dramatic Changes In Follow-Up Observations

clock-iconJanuary 28, 2025
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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova ExplosionsAn artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]

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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova ExplosionsAn artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]
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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova Explosions

clock-iconSeptember 27, 2024
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These Are Some Of Our Favorite Space ImagesA drawned astronaut pondering orbs with the incredible images chosen in this selection

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These Are Some Of Our Favorite Space ImagesA drawned astronaut pondering orbs with the incredible images chosen in this selection
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These Are Some Of Our Favorite Space Images

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Incredible First View Of The Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black HoleThis image shows the polarised view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines overlaid on this image mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. A bright donut like structure with a dark hole (the black hole) is seen covered in lines that wrap around it but not fully.

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Incredible First View Of The Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black HoleThis image shows the polarised view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines overlaid on this image mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. A bright donut like structure with a dark hole (the black hole) is seen covered in lines that wrap around it but not fully.
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Incredible First View Of The Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

clock-iconMarch 27, 2024
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Brand New Image Of First Black Hole To Be Photographed Reveals Moving ShadowA fuzzy orange donut is the ring around M87*. There's two of them one from 2017 and the other from 2018. The one from 2018 is much brighter at around 5 oclock direction.

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Brand New Image Of First Black Hole To Be Photographed Reveals Moving ShadowA fuzzy orange donut is the ring around M87*. There's two of them one from 2017 and the other from 2018. The one from 2018 is much brighter at around 5 oclock direction.
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Brand New Image Of First Black Hole To Be Photographed Reveals Moving Shadow

clock-iconJanuary 18, 2024
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The Jet Of M87* Might Be Stealing Energy From The Supermassive Black HoleThe elliptical galaxy is just a bright sphere whose feature can't really be distingusih but a prominent blue jet is seen stetchign out like a ribbon from its center

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The Jet Of M87* Might Be Stealing Energy From The Supermassive Black HoleThe elliptical galaxy is just a bright sphere whose feature can't really be distingusih but a prominent blue jet is seen stetchign out like a ribbon from its center
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The Jet Of M87* Might Be Stealing Energy From The Supermassive Black Hole

clock-iconNovember 15, 2023
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Wobbling Jet Provides First Confirmation Black Holes SpinA misalignment between the axis of spin of M87's black hole and its accretion disk's rotation axis leads to precession in the direction of its jet

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Wobbling Jet Provides First Confirmation Black Holes SpinA misalignment between the axis of spin of M87's black hole and its accretion disk's rotation axis leads to precession in the direction of its jet
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Wobbling Jet Provides First Confirmation Black Holes Spin

clock-iconSeptember 28, 2023
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How Did We Actually Take A Picture Of A Black Hole?The image has been improved since, but the first picture of a black hole silhouetted against its event horizon will always be iconic

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How Did We Actually Take A Picture Of A Black Hole?The image has been improved since, but the first picture of a black hole silhouetted against its event horizon will always be iconic
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How Did We Actually Take A Picture Of A Black Hole?

clock-iconSeptember 13, 2023
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What Is The Heaviest Object In The Universe?The Hubble deep field has helped trace the cosmic web that is arguably the most massive thing in the universe, as well as containing galaxies that represent more compact options

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What Is The Heaviest Object In The Universe?The Hubble deep field has helped trace the cosmic web that is arguably the most massive thing in the universe, as well as containing galaxies that represent more compact options
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What Is The Heaviest Object In The Universe?

clock-iconMay 18, 2023
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3D View Of Famous M87 Galaxy Reveals It Resembles A Very Big PotatoThis is the galactic core shown as a composite image of visible and infrared observations in order to resolve the blue jet.

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3D View Of Famous M87 Galaxy Reveals It Resembles A Very Big PotatoThis is the galactic core shown as a composite image of visible and infrared observations in order to resolve the blue jet.
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3D View Of Famous M87 Galaxy Reveals It Resembles A Very Big Potato

clock-iconMay 9, 2023
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TWIS: Our Ice Age Ancestors Had Some Disgusting Eating Habits, The First-Ever Image Of A Black Hole Shooting Out Jets, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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TWIS: Our Ice Age Ancestors Had Some Disgusting Eating Habits, The First-Ever Image Of A Black Hole Shooting Out Jets, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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TWIS: Our Ice Age Ancestors Had Some Disgusting Eating Habits, The First-Ever Image Of A Black Hole Shooting Out Jets, And Much More This Week

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First-Ever Direct Image Of A Black Hole Launching Its Jets RevealedThe first image showing both the shadow of a black hole (expanded) and the jets released

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First-Ever Direct Image Of A Black Hole Launching Its Jets RevealedThe first image showing both the shadow of a black hole (expanded) and the jets released
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First-Ever Direct Image Of A Black Hole Launching Its Jets Revealed

clock-iconApril 26, 2023
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First-Ever Image Of Black Hole Has Been Sharpened By AI And It’s IncredibleThe new and improved M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87. Image credit: L. Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Psaltis (Georgia Tech), T. Lauer (NSF’s NOIRLab), and F. Ozel (Georgia Tech)

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First-Ever Image Of Black Hole Has Been Sharpened By AI And It’s IncredibleThe new and improved M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87. Image credit: L. Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Psaltis (Georgia Tech), T. Lauer (NSF’s NOIRLab), and F. Ozel (Georgia Tech)
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First-Ever Image Of Black Hole Has Been Sharpened By AI And It’s Incredible

clock-iconApril 13, 2023
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A Giant Is Producing The Lowest Musical Note In The UniverseIn Chandra’s X-ray image, enormous bright loops, ripples, and jet-like streaks throughout the cluster can be seen. The dark blue filaments in the center are likely due to a galaxy that has been torn apart and is falling into NGC 1275 (a.k.a. Perseus A), the giant galaxy that lies at the center of the cluster. A different view of Perseus combines data from Chandra in the inner regions of the cluster and XMM data in the outer regions.

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A Giant Is Producing The Lowest Musical Note In The UniverseIn Chandra’s X-ray image, enormous bright loops, ripples, and jet-like streaks throughout the cluster can be seen. The dark blue filaments in the center are likely due to a galaxy that has been torn apart and is falling into NGC 1275 (a.k.a. Perseus A), the giant galaxy that lies at the center of the cluster. A different view of Perseus combines data from Chandra in the inner regions of the cluster and XMM data in the outer regions.
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A Giant Is Producing The Lowest Musical Note In The Universe

clock-iconMarch 2, 2023
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