UNAM contributes to unraveling the dynamics of black holes

Yazid Lovillo

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, a project involving experts from UNAM's Institute of Astronomy (IA), has deepened our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).


Alejandro Cruz Osorio, a researcher at the university and collaborator of the EHT, explained that the work team confirmed that its rotation axis points in the opposite direction to Earth and demonstrated that turbulence within the accretion disk (gas that rotates around the black hole) plays an important role in explaining the observed change in the peak brightness of the ring, compared to what was seen in 2017.





The findings, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, mark a step forward in unraveling the complex dynamics of black hole environments, since until 2019, these types of phenomena had been theorized, but there was no visual verification of their behavior.


Reference Bibliographic.

Contribuye UNAM a desentrañar la dinámica de los agujeros negros.

https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/contribuye-unam-a-desentranar-la-dinamica-de-los-agujeros-negros/

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