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A Supermassive Black Hole’s Strong Magnetic Fields Are Revealed in a New Light

  • A computer simulation of a disk of plasma around the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. A new analysis of the spiraling light in EHT observations shows that magnetic fields near the black hole are strong, pushing back on infalling matter and launching jets of matter at velocities near the speed of light.

    A computer simulation of a disk of plasma around the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. A new analysis of the spiraling light in EHT observations shows that magnetic fields near the black hole are strong, pushing back on infalling matter and launching jets of matter at velocities near the speed of light.

    Image Credit: George Wong (IAS)

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