Posted on 03/31/2021 3:52:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: To play on Carl Sagan’s famous words "If you wish to make black hole jets, you must first create magnetic fields." The featured image represents the detected intrinsic spin direction (polarization) of radio waves. The polarizationi is produced by the powerful magnetic field surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy M87. The radio waves were detected by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which combines data from radio telescopes distributed worldwide. The polarization structure, mapped using computer generated flow lines, is overlaid on EHT’s famous black hole image, first published in 2019. The full 3-D magnetic field is complex. Preliminary analyses indicate that parts of the field circle around the black hole along with the accreting matter, as expected. However, another component seemingly veers vertically away from the black hole. This component could explain how matter resists falling in and is instead launched into M87’s jet.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
Beautiful.
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I see........millions and millions of.....missing socks.....
Same here! Not to mention all the loose change that I thought had been swallowed by the couch over the years.
...and beer koozies, cigarette lighters, bottles of sunscreen, tubes of chapstick...
Let them go, there’s no retrieving them now. Console yourself that at the other end there’s a white hole that deposits solitary socks into the dryers of creatures who may not even have feet. The universe can be cruel that way.
Nice computer generated image of what we believe it looks like.
The truth is no one has ever seen a black hole.
Wishful Thinking....
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