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Working together as a “virtual telescope,” observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole
By Jennifer Chu
Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough
By Hannah Devlin
Scientists are about to unveil the first images of a supermassive black hole
By Loren Grush
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Gaston Giribet
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La compacidad del agujero negro del centro de nuestra galaxia “strengthens the case for a single black hole at the center of the Milky Way”, en www.mpe.mpg.de/7968905/news20231025 via GRAVITY. pic.twitter.com/ERzlRuYxJH
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ALMA Observatory📡
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At left, the supermassive #blackhole at the center of the MilkyWay Galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is seen in polarized light, the visible lines indicating the orientation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole @ehtelescope
🔗www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-at-the-edge-of-milky-ways-central-black-hole/ pic.twitter.com/jMQIBCZn29
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ESO
ESO
Do you recognise this pic? 👇 It's the first image ever of a #BlackHole — specifically, the one at the heart of galaxy M87.
@almaobs played a key role in this groundbreaking feat, as you can discover in the new episode of #ChasingStarlight, link below! 1/
📷 @ehtelescope pic.twitter.com/zzrXEhpxEt
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Christopher Berry
cplberry
Catching up on #GravitationalWave candidate #S240421ar
If real, the source is probably a binary black hole
False alarm rate 1 in 0.88 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S240421ar/
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36205
Rating 🕊️🌅
#O4IsHere pic.twitter.com/LMWaBMlixP
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