At 22:00 on March 24th, Beijing time, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration organization, which successfully captured the first photo of a black hole in human history, provided a new perspective for revealing the M87 supermassive black hole: its image under polarized light.

This is the first time that astronomers have measured polarization information that characterizes the magnetic field so close to the edge of a black hole.


Release time: 2021-03-25 07:26:44 【Editor: Li Peiyun】