Polarized light shows hot gas swirling around a galactic core
- 1 June 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 74 (6), 16-18
- https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.4766
Abstract
The images of galaxy Messier 87 provide evidence of magnetic field lines in its innermost region. Those lines likely trace the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.Keywords
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