New image shows black hole expelling powerful jet

STORY: New image shows black hole expelling powerful jet DATELINE: April 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:29 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the black hole of the M87 galaxy STORYLINE: An international team of researchers has captured the shadow of the black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 and the powerful jet expelled from it in the same image for the first time. The black hole of the M87 galaxy has a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the Sun and is 55 million light-years from Earth. In April 2019, an image of a donut-like structure with a dark central region and a bright ring made international headlines as the first-ever image of a black hole. A black hole can engulf matter in its immediate vicinity and eject powerful particles beyond the galaxy that harbor the black hole at the center. Astronomers have been trying to observe the origin of the jet as close as possible to better understand how the energetic jets are created. The latest published M87 black hole imag