A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole
- Written by: Phil Edwards, Program Director, Australia Telescope National Facility Science, CSIRO
Event Horizon Telescope project/Nature AstronomyIn 2019, when astronomers captured the first image of a black hole’s shadow — a bright orange doughnut-shaped halo created by the black hole’s intense gravity bending light around it — it was rightly hailed as a breakthrough.
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