The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has today revealed 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 […]

In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed the first image of the candidate supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87). This event horizon-scale image shows a ring of glowing plasma with a dark patch at the center, which is interpreted as the shadow of […]