Scientists reveal astonishing image of black hole in our galaxy

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Scientists have revealed an astonishing new image of the black hole on the center of our galaxy.

The object – generally known as Sagittarius A* – is proven in polarised gentle for the primary time, in a profound breakthrough.

It gives a brand new view of that supermassive black hole that lies on the coronary heart of our personal Milky Way. The swirling image exhibits the magnetic area construction across the black hole, and means that it might need a hidden jet.

The image was created by the scientists as half of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. That produced the primary image of a black hole – when in 2019 it produced an image of the one on the coronary heart of the M87 galaxy – and adopted it in 2022 with an image of the one on the coronary heart of our Milky Way.

Our galaxy’s Milky Way is a thousand instances smaller and fewer huge than M87’s. But the brand new image suggests they is perhaps remarkably related: in addition to sharing a typical look, they seem to have related magnetic area constructions – suggesting these processes is perhaps related throughout black holes.

“What we’re seeing now is that there are strong, twisted, and organized magnetic fields near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy,” mentioned Sara Issaoun, NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow on the Center for Astrophysics on the Harvard & Smithsonian and co-lead of the undertaking.

“Along with Sgr A* having a strikingly similar polarization structure to that seen in the much larger and more powerful M87* black hole, we’ve learned that strong and ordered magnetic fields are critical to how black holes interact with the gas and matter around them.”