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Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’

A network of eight radio telescopes around the world helped to record the image. The first image of a black hole has been captured by astronomers, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects.

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The secret of the black hole has been finally cracked!

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Quantum simulation of black-hole radiation

Citation: doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01592-xIt

The properties of this radiation have now been analysed using an analogue black hole comprising a system of ultracold atoms

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Creating the first image of a black hole was an important milestone. But in many ways, the true value of the project lies in how it created an opportunity for researchers to change the way they explore the world.

Black holes represent a moment where our universe ends and folds back upon itself, where relativity and quantum physics collide. Back here on earth, black holes do something similar - they bring people together from different disciplines to create collisions of thought.

Because black holes are the absolute boundary between what we know and what we don’t, this is a problem that cannot be solved by astronomers, physicists, or mathematicians alone. It also requires philosophers and people who can challenge researchers to think differently.

Cross-disciplinary dialogue isn’t always easy, but the Black Hole Initiative has led to a number of discussions that provide space for the unlimited possibility of collaboration.


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Giant, shape-shifting stars spotted near Milky Ways black hole

A number of bizarre shape-shifting objects have been discovered close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
The blobs are thought to be giant stars that spend part of their orbits so close to the black hole that they get stretched out like bubble gum before returning to a compact, roughly spherical form.

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In 2019, the first-ever image of a black hole wowed the world. And now, the team at the Event Horizon Telescope has released an updated version, this time revealing how the supermassive black hole looks in polarized light.

Paradoxically, despite their light-swallowing capability, black holes are the most luminous objects in the universe. Material — gas, dust, shredded stars — that falls into a black hole is heated to millions of degrees as it swirls around the drain of doom in a dense maelstrom of electromagnetic fields. Most of that matter falls into the black hole, but some is pushed out, like toothpaste, by enormous pressures and magnetic fields. How all of this energy arises and is marshaled remains unknown to astronomers.

The black hole in question is a monster 6.5 billion times as massive as the sun, and lies in the center of an enormous elliptical galaxy, Messier 87, about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.