Black hole accretion disk in Messier 87 (EHT) galaxy

Five days ago, we were able to see a photo of the black hole accretion disk in the Messier 87 galaxy, which is in the constellation Virgo A.

Actually, the photo itself

This, by the way, suggests that the theory of black holes was correct. Thanks to EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) theory has become a reality.

The mass of this black hole in 65,5 billion times the mass of our Sun.

Black hole outlines

How does a black hole change during the week

EHT is an international collaboration to create a network of radio telescopes, combining data from several interferometry stations with a very long baseline (VLBI) over the entire Earth.

This method of linking radio transmissions across the globe to create an interferometer the size of the Earth was used to measure the size of the radiation regions of two supermassive black holes with the largest visible event horizons: Sagittarius A * in the center of our galaxy (Milky Way) and Messier 87 in the center of the Virgo A galaxy .

Well, here you can choose a radio telescope on the map and learn about it.

Sagittarius A * (26 thousand light years from Earth)

Messier 87 (55 million light years from Earth)

A very important role was played by Dr. Kathy Buman, who created the algorithm, thanks to which we can see the very photo of the black hole's accretion disk.

Dr. Kathy Buman

Here is her performance with translation (subtitles):

Comments

[viktor_ui]

Fiction and my applause! The clearest example of international cooperation and no trampolines and flaring. People are busy with science, and the face of Dr. Katy Boom is already shining with happiness and she is simply a miracle with the whole team involved in this EVENT. There is a real reason to note

[Errr]

To call a place where holes are absolutely impossible is a masterpiece of irony. Most likely "black holes" are accumulators of matter-energy. Are not quasars their continuation? Batteries cannot be charged indefinitely.

[viktor_ui]

The Schwarzschild zone or sphere, now called the Event Horizon ... which (which) can also have a layered structure because there can be border spheres as in a Russian doll Christmas trees, sticks, thoughts ran from the beginning of the 80s, sometimes it becomes a pity that I did not become an astrophysicist as I wanted then ... I envy them kindly.
Batteries seem to be storing energy for the next evolutionary big BABAH

[Wedmak]

Yes, I am still amazed, from 57 thousand light years, to consider this ... A monster, larger than our solar system, it is difficult to imagine what is going on "nearby".

[donavi49]

Here is the size of a virtual telescope to see. The next will be the Sagittarius.

[Gennady]

Our radio telescopes on the other side of the earth, pity Russian scientists were left without a Nobel Prize.

[Gennady]

When will we approximately see Sagittarius, in 2 of the year?

[Jack O'Neill]

Our radio telescopes on the other side of the earth, pity Russian scientists were left without a Nobel Prize.

I think that from our side there are enough black hole galaxies. It would only desire, as they say.

When will we approximately see Sagittarius, in 2 of the year?

I think that we will wait longer. After all, we must first gather information and then process it.

[Jack O'Neill]

Yes, I am still amazed, from 57 thousand light years, to consider this ... A monster, larger than our solar system, it is difficult to imagine what is going on "nearby".

55 million light years *

[Wedmak]

Well, yes, somehow I wrote something wrong on the 3 order. )))

[Errr]

Quote: viktor_ui

Batteries seem to be storing energy for the next evolutionary big BABAH

For large BABAH compulsory synchronizer. On the scale of the universe, it is unthinkable.

[viktor_ui]

Let’s beat it, BUT THEN

[Errr]

Well then it’s better.

[Maki Avellevich]

Quote: viktor_ui

Batteries seem to be storing energy for the next evolutionary big BABAH

charging the batteries from the cooling universe is not enough for the new babah, only Baron Munchausen could pull himself out of his hair.
here it will be necessary something else. perhaps this is the meaning of life (humanity in the first place)
create a kind of starter - cousin's mother!
for those who will be after us. it’s a pity that they don’t even know that we’re telling our world for them

[tarragon]

Another confirmation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Tarhun

Another confirmation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

Yes, it is! We are waiting for the discovery of dark matter, torsion fields and supersymmetric particles! And magnetic monopoles!

[tarragon]

I'm more interested in gravitons. If they exist.

[Sergey Ivanov_12]

In some individuals, gravitons are serious. And ours do not work so-so.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Tarhun

If ...... exist.

Even as they exist !!! On one scientific site, I found out that by modern means we observed a collision of two supermassive objects with huge density in another galaxy and for the first time GRAVITY WAVES, and, accordingly, gravitons, were recorded. For a long time I know that graviton has spin = 2, and why --- did not know. It turns out because bodies emitting gravitons are macroscopic.
I don’t remember the name of the site, I forgot to make a bookmark, now I need to re-start everything in the search engine, and I --- to work!

[tarragon]

Unfortunately, gravitational waves did not prove the existence of gravitons, but confirmed Einstein's assumption about the existence of the waves themselves. Some suggestions are just as obvious. Space time dictates matter how to settle down and move in it, and matter, in turn, bends space.

[Maki Avellevich]

Quote: Tarhun

I'm more interested in gravitons. If they exist.

I am silent about antigravitons

[tarragon]

Tell me interesting.

[Maki Avellevich]

Quote: Tarhun

Tell me interesting.

antigraviton is like graviton just the opposite.
no laugh
if positrons are found then it looks like antigravitons have a place to be

[tarragon]

And did not think to laugh. Maybe, maybe they exist (antigravitons). Although the comparison with the positron is not quite a point. I would compare the graviton (the carrier of gravitational interactions) with the photon (the carrier of electromagnetic interactions). I have not heard about the antiphoton, therefore, by analogy, perhaps antigravitons do not exist. In general, although apples fall to the ground, gravitational interaction is weak. It is difficult to study it by modern means and methods (in order to fix gravitational waves, two huge interferometers had to be built. But without experimenting, they will move forward. Although it is possible to cut them off. Studying particles, carriers of strong interactions using the principle of equivalence will approach gravitons.

[Maki Avellevich]

Quote: Tarhun

Studying particles, carriers of strong interactions, using the principle of equivalence, will approach graviton

I agree. very much.

if we accept that matter / energy has a "mirror image", then we can also accept that the form of matter / energy does not matter and dance further from this stove

[K-50]

Still to know why we need it and how to apply it to life.

[Dmitry Kuzmin]

When they opened the electricity, too, no one knew why this was and what to do with it.

[donavi49]

The only question is the planning horizon.
- if it is small, then in general it is possible to solve space almost completely (with the exception of reconnaissance satellites, the Internet, TV and positioning systems), it is not needed. For there will be no practical return on investment in 10-15 years.

Fotochka did the following:
- confirmed Einstein’s theory, but on the whole it is +/- not critically important (it would be critical if it had not been confirmed).
- confirmed all the main models - which they created and counted on supercomputers in recent years. Therefore - in this direction you can move on. Being engaged in virtual researched for this model. We cannot get there - but we can calculate virtually.
- Got a unique experience, a unique software package, creating a virtual telescope the size of the earth. It will develop actively. In the future, it is possible to create even larger virtual telescopes, already in space, and they will be based on the unique experience gained now.

[asar]

Katie Well done!
And what a handsome!

[SERGEY SERGEEVICS]

And each time the cosmos opens its new secrets that are far beyond the universe and only thanks to scientists we learn about it.

[Reptiloid]

About

Quote: SERGEY SERGEEVICS

beyond the universe

hard to say but now the probability that exoplanets will be discovered in a given star does not depend on the distance to this star! And soon all the galaxies in our Supergalaxy will be resolved to the stars !!! The object Virgo A already ... Looked on the Web and read in the magazine that through the CTX those galaxies were already cataloged, the distance from which is the largest! They are in the opposite region of our Universe, our Riemannian hypersphere, from us! Nothing further than them can be for geometric reasons --- space is curved and its volume is finite. Therefore, we are already on the verge of drafting maps of the universe!
Good luck to you, comrades astronomers !!!!!

[Kostadinov]

Is it possible to create an algorithm with which you can see anything? We must ask Dr. Keti to create an algorithm and see the gentlemen God himself. She will be able to.

[Maki Avellevich]

Quote: Kostadinov

Is it possible to create an algorithm with which you can see anything? We must ask Dr. Keti to create an algorithm and see the gentlemen God himself. She will be able to.

or maybe you already see something?

[Sergey Ivanov_12]

I saw a black hole. She is not like that. And she smells bad.

[Sergey Ivanov_12]

Where I am ? Where am I ?