M87's jets produce light spanning the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to visible light to gamma rays. The immense gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole can power jets of particles that travel at almost the speed of light across vast distances. "But to get the most out of this remarkable image, we need to know everything we can about the black hole's behavior at that time by observing over the entire electromagnetic spectrum." "We knew that the first direct image of a black hole would be groundbreaking," said Kazuhiro Hada of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, a co-author of a new study being published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters to describe the large set of data. However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told.ĭata from 19 observatories are being released that promise to give unparalleled insight into this black hole and the system it powers, and to improve tests of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Image Credit: The EHT Multi-wavelength Science Working Group the EHT Collaboration ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) the EVN the EAVN Collaboration VLBA (NRAO) the GMVA the Hubble Space Telescope the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory the Chandra X-ray Observatory the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array the Fermi-LAT Collaboration the H.E.S.S collaboration the MAGIC collaboration the VERITAS collaboration NASA and ESA.
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