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A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light (eso2406a)
2024-03-27
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- This media was produced by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), under the identifier eso2406a This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
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About this work
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the centre of our 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 Sagittarius A*. This image shows the polarised view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines overlaid on this image mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.
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