Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*

Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed views of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87. The images do not just show a glowing ring. They also track polarized light, a clue that reveals how magnetic fields behave near the edge of the black hole. Researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Inst…