Classroom Aid – First Ever Black Hole Image



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In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT for short) team released an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87 that created and powers the M87 Jets. It illustrates many of the features of a black hole discussed in the previous segments.

This image represents the first direct visual evidence for a black hole. Basically, we’re looking at an emission ring around a dark shadow. This is consistent with the idea that the ring is gravitationally lensed light produced by a hot, turbulent magnetized accretion disk orbiting close to the event horizon of a Kerr black hole and the darker center is the black hole’s shadow.

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  1. Einstein himself couldn't bring himself to believe that such an entity , predicted by his own equations by Karl Schwarzschild , is real . Yet here we are viewing one at the center of the milky way . I'll tell you what though , all of these fantastic densities calculated , and distances that swallow up our entire solar system and then some packed into the center of a galaxy so huge that our world is not even a mote of dust by comparison , and that tells me why we have not been contacted let alone visited by another technological civilization somewhere out there in the milky way . The galaxy knows nothing of us , and anyone else out there beside us may never find out about us , or vice versa .

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