Summary
The European Southern Observatory (OES) announced Tuesday that radio telescopes have made test observations with the highest resolution ever obtained from Earth-based telescopes, and are likely to record 50 percent more detailed images of black holes in the future.
[fotografias] “In color,” highlights one of the experiment’s coordinators, astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, according to a statement from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the United States.
In 2019, a team of hundreds of scientists revealed to the world the first image of a supermassive black hole, in this case a silhouette of hot, luminous gas swirling around it.
It is the black hole M87*, located at the center of the galaxy M87, 55 million light-years from Earth, and its mass is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun.
In the now-released experimental experiment, the same consortium conducted experimental observations of distant, bright galaxies powered by massive black holes at their centers.