The black hole has new data!
On April 14, new data on black holes observed by 19 telescopes (arrays) around the world were made public.
On April 10, 2019, scientists from around the world jointly released the first image of a black hole in human history, revealing a bright ring structure and its dark central region-the shadow of the black hole, which resembles a "doughnut."
A total of 760 scientists and engineers from nearly 200 scientific research institutions in 32 countries and regions around the world use 19 telescopes (arrays) to gather the new black hole data released this time.
The data from these telescopes, combined with current and future EHT (Event Horizon Telescope), will allow scientists to analyze some of the most important and challenging research areas of astrophysics.
For example, these data can be used to perfect the test of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
The description in the video is as follows: Starting from the iconic M87 black hole photo, it leads people to see the history of the black hole and its jets captured by each telescope.
The data presented in each frame spans dozens of times in observation wavelength and physical scale.
(Reporter Zheng Yingying produced Zhou Jing's video source EHT cooperative organization multi-band working group)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]