Black hole unmasked: Astronomers capture first image of accretion ring and relativistic jet

Powerful illustration of supermassive black hole jet

Astronomers have produced an image depicting both the accretion structure and the powerful relativistic jet of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87. The image was generated using the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA), integrated by the Atacama Large Millimeter /submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Greenland Telescope (GLT), providing a panoramic … Read more