A helical motion mistaken for a funnel motion. I think they are observing a braid or a weave, and calling it a twist. 8) paper published in the Astrophysical Journal. The EHT Collaboration is collectively credited as the first author in the new EHT findings, which are detailed in a Wednesday (Nov. 'This circularly polarized light that has now been detected is very faint, but in more recent years, EHT has been observing with more stations and improved sensitivity - meaning that the ongoing analysis will likely provide us with new tips on the secrets around M87*.' The researchers continue to analyze the data for stronger evidence of linear polarization, as they say their work could ' still leave room for improvement,' Hugo Messias, a study co-author who leads the VLBI team at ALMA, said in the same statement.

(This means that the EHT cannot image black holes themselves, as they emit no light, but each black hole's surroundings do glow in detectable radiation.) The magnetic fields also launch jets of matter away from M87* at velocities near the speed of light before the matter passes through the black hole's event horizon - the point at which nothing can escape a black hole, even light - and add to the black holes already tremendous mass. Swirling gas helps scientists nail down Milky Way's supermassive black hole mass How the Event Horizon Telescope hunts for black hole silhouettes Star-birthing galaxies can hide supermassive black holes behind walls of dust ALMA is an array of 66 antennas in the Chilean desert that can peer through cosmic dusty environments, like black holes, to seek longer wavelengths of light. Researchers next took a closer look using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) located in Northern Chile, which provided calibration by acting as a reference antenna for the EHT. (Polarized light has a different orientation and brightness than unpolarized light.) The 2021 data also revealed the direction of oscillating (vibrating) electric fields, providing the first hint that magnetic fields around M87* are strong and ordered. The newer image showed, for the very first time, polarized light around a black hole.

Two years after the release of the image of the supermassive black hole in M87, in 2021, the EHT Collaboration released a second stunning look. 'The unprecedented EHT observations are allowing us to answer long-standing questions,' he added, 'about how black holes consume matter and launch jets outside their host galaxies.' 'These new results give us confidence that our picture of a strong magnetic field permeating the hot gas surrounding the black hole is the right one,' added Chael, an associate research scholar with the Princeton Gravity Initiative - which combines the university's astrophysics, mathematics and physics departments to seek the nature of gravity. 'Circular polarization is the final signal we looked for in the EHT's first observations of the M87 black hole, and it (the polarization) was by far the hardest to analyze,' Andrew Chael, study co-author and project coordinator at Princeton University, said in a statement.

Images from event horizon telescope