An orange donut-shaped object against a black background. Three blobs on the donut are particularly bright. Thin swirling lines overlaid on the donut spiral around the donut’s central hole.

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   Juan Carlos Muñoz (astro_jcm@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 23:24:08 JST Juan Carlos Muñoz

   The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled how Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, looks like in polarised light, which tells us a lot about the magnetic field around this monster.

   The lines overlaid on the image below mark the orientation of the polarisation, from which astronomers can work out the structure of the magnetic field around the black hole.

   More details: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2406/

   📷 EHT Collaboration

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