A view of the M87 supermassive black hole in polarised light
eso_eso2105a March 24th, 2021
Credit: EHT Collaboration
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole released in 2019, has today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. This image shows the polarised view of the black hole in M87. The lines mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2105a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso2105a
- Subject Category
- C.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- Messier 87
- Credits
- EHT Collaboration
- Release Date
- 2021-03-24T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2105a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Event Horizon Telescope
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Orange
- Band
- Millimeter
- Bandpass
- None
- Central Wavelength
- 1300000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 187.70593075, 12.39112325
- Reference Dimension
- 3414.0, 3447.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1707.0, 1723.5
- Scale
- -8.90483602239e-12, 8.90483602239e-12
- Rotation
- 0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- coordinates tagged by ESO/ Mahdi Zamani
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2105a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2105a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2020-12-01T18:09:51+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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