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That Famous Black Hole Gets a Second Look DNyuz

By Thomas A. Smith

The same team of scientists have done it again, this time even better. In 2018, a year after capturing the first image, the astronomers stared again into M87 s darkness with a slightly enlarged network that provided higher resolution. The result, published last week in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, shows the same lumpy doughnut and the same central hole in even tastier detail, suggesting that the astronomers had done things right the first time around.

The first image of a black hole looked so similar to the mathematical predictions that it almost seemed like a fluke, Dominic Chang, a physics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard who works on the Event Horizon team, said in a news release issued by the Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Mass., where the project is based.

via dnyuz.com

It’s worth at least a couple looks.