Explorando Agujeros negros *NSF*

https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/?fbclid=IwAR3C98WLUleA_iG-IwCHNde2Hem5NEhQymecH56I7QgZaphhEBYM6Ps4A28

Estas imágenes que les comparto capturadas el pasado 8 de febrero 2019, desde Santa Cruz de Turrialba, Costa Rica, muestran el jet de energía o chorro relativista asociado al agujero negro supermasivo que se encuentra en el núcleo activo de la Galaxia M87 y del que posiblemente mañana veremos su disco de acreción y horizonte de eventos.

Event Horizon Telescope (https://eventhorizontelescope.org/)

Focus on theFirst Event Horizon Telescope Results (https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_EHT)

http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2019/black_hole/

First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole 
Image Credit: (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190411.html)
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Explanation: What does a black hole look like? To find out, radio telescopes from around the Earth coordinated observations of black holes with the largest known event horizons on the sky. Alone, black holes are just black, but these monster attractors are known to be surrounded by glowing gas. The first image was released yesterday and resolved the area around the black hole at the center of galaxy M87 on a scale below that expected for its event horizon. Pictured, the dark central region is not the event horizon, but rather the black hole's shadow -- the central region of emitting gas darkened by the central black hole's gravity. The size and shape of the shadow is determined by bright gas near the event horizon, by strong gravitational lensing deflections, and by the black hole's spin. In resolving this black hole's shadow, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) bolstered evidence that Einstein's gravity works even in extreme regions, and gave clear evidence that M87 has a central spinning black hole of about 6 billion solar masses. The EHT is not done -- future observations will be geared toward even higher resolution, better tracking of variability, and exploring the immediate vicinity of the black hole in the center of ourMilky Way Galaxy.