The international scientists coalition, which led the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network set up with eight telescopes around the world, for the first time in April last year. Scientists, who defined the giant black hole “monster” three million times larger than Earth with a diameter of 40 billion kilometers, have succeeded in bringing this epic astronomy event to reality, which we have only been able to look at. A team of researchers from the Harvard University Astrophysics Center seems to have found a new way to study this super-mass black hole in the M87 galaxy, 55 million light years away, in detail. New research promises to be able to access sharper images of the black hole, compared to blurry images we’ve seen so far. Michael Johnson, who is a lecturer at the Astrophysics Center, says that EHT only attracts the “photon sphere” or “photon ring” of the black hole: there is definitely more to it than that. Johnson said, “The image of a black hole actually consists of a series of intertwined rings. “Each consecutive ring has approximately the same diameter but is getting increasingly sharp because the light is orbiting the black hole before it reaches the observer,” he says. Scientists layered giant mass black hole Black holes, which collapsed due to their own weight and gradually die, do not allow light to escape due to the huge attraction in the center. Indeed, that’s why it looks black. Although it was taken in just five days by eight interconnected telescope networks, the black hole photo, which went through a 2-year analysis process, finally allowed us to collect real data about these cosmic objects that we have long thought of as abstract. The scientists, who separated the photo of the supermassive black hole with the measurement technique called interferometer, thus exposed the internal structure of the black hole. Johnson says the new method they discovered may result in clearer black hole images in the future.
title: “Scientists Discover A Method To Take Clearer Black Hole Photos” ShowToc: true date: “2023-03-21” author: “Gregory Perkins”
The international scientists coalition, which led the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network set up with eight telescopes around the world, for the first time in April last year. Scientists, who defined the giant black hole “monster” three million times larger than Earth with a diameter of 40 billion kilometers, have succeeded in bringing this epic astronomy event to reality, which we have only been able to look at. A team of researchers from the Harvard University Astrophysics Center seems to have found a new way to study this super-mass black hole in the M87 galaxy, 55 million light years away, in detail. New research promises to be able to access sharper images of the black hole, compared to blurry images we’ve seen so far. Michael Johnson, who is a lecturer at the Astrophysics Center, says that EHT only attracts the “photon sphere” or “photon ring” of the black hole: there is definitely more to it than that. Johnson said, “The image of a black hole actually consists of a series of intertwined rings. “Each consecutive ring has approximately the same diameter but is getting increasingly sharp because the light is orbiting the black hole before it reaches the observer,” he says. Scientists layered giant mass black hole Black holes, which collapsed due to their own weight and gradually die, do not allow light to escape due to the huge attraction in the center. Indeed, that’s why it looks black. Although it was taken in just five days by eight interconnected telescope networks, the black hole photo, which went through a 2-year analysis process, finally allowed us to collect real data about these cosmic objects that we have long thought of as abstract. The scientists, who separated the photo of the supermassive black hole with the measurement technique called interferometer, thus exposed the internal structure of the black hole. Johnson says the new method they discovered may result in clearer black hole images in the future.
