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“#Astronomers announce unprecedented data on famous supermassive black hole<\/strong>”
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New data\u00a0released by a\u00a0team of hundreds of international scientists offers a more comprehensive understanding of the\u00a0supermassive black hole\u00a0at the\u00a0heart of the galaxy M87<\/a>\u00a0and the system it powers.<\/p>\n

A dramatic video announcing the findings promises \u201cunparalleled insight\u201d into the black hole and suggests that the observations could also help to improve tests of prolific\u00a0mathematician<\/a>\u00a0Albert Einstein\u2019s\u00a0General Theory of Relativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In order to measure and observe black hole behavior, researchers gathered information from\u00a019 observatories, using imagery from\u00a0NASA\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope (HST)<\/a>,\u00a0Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a>, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the Nuclear\u00a0Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the\u00a0Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).<\/p>\n

In 2019, the scientists\u00a0released\u00a0the first-ever image<\/a>\u00a0of a black hole\u00a0in the galaxy M87 \u2014 55 million light-years away from\u00a0Earth<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 using the EHT.<\/p>\n

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\u26abIn 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first direct image of the black hole in galaxy M87. In a quest to learn more, coordinated observations with 19 of the world’s most powerful telescopes have now collected light from across the spectrum. https:\/\/t.co\/sIvMHIRqbY<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/YEjjGMkuPQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Chandra Observatory (@chandraxray) April 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

A co-author of a report on the new data sets\u00a0published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a>, the\u00a0National Astronomical Observatory of\u00a0Japan\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Kazuhiro Hada, told NASA that the image had informed their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that the first direct image of a black hole would be groundbreaking,\u201d he said\u00a0in a Wednesday release<\/a>. \u201cBut to get the most out of this remarkable image, we need to know everything we can about the black hole\u2019s behavior at that time by observing over the entire electromagnetic spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, the space agency\u00a0said in March<\/a>\u00a0that the Chandra X-ray Observatory had found evidence of a jet of particles coming from a\u00a0fast-growing supermassive black hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Astronomers<\/a>\u00a0have studied the jets that travel<\/a> at almost the speed of light across vast distances and NASA said that the jets from M87 produce light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, suggesting that each black hole has a unique pattern based on the intensity of light it produces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdentifying this pattern gives crucial insight into a black hole\u2019s properties (for example, its spin and\u00a0energy<\/a>\u00a0output), but this is a challenge because the pattern changes with time,\u201d NASA said in the statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The various telescopes utilized in this coordinated undertaking help to characterize the black holes and compensate for spectrum variability.<\/p>\n

According to NASA, the observations \u2014 made from the end of March to the middle of April 2017 \u2014 mark the largest simultaneous\u00a0observing campaign ever undertaken on a supermassive black hole with jets.<\/p>\n

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