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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa021.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://news.artnet.com/art-world/most-detailed-black-hole-photograph-1955942\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://news.artnet.com/art-world/most-detailed-black-hole-photograph-1955942\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/most-detailed-black-hole-photograph-1955942","crawl_time":1775941030,"first_indexed_time":1617200497,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,artnet!news,\/art-world\/most-detailed-black-hole-photograph-1955942 s443","src_root_hash":"3915844116584170621","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Astronomers Have Captured the Most Detailed Photo of a Black Hole Ever—See the Magnetic Fields That Power It Here","meta_descriptions":["Event Horizon Telescope astronomers have taken the most detailed photo to date of a black hole, including its vortex and magnetic fields."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Two years ago, astronomers managed to\nphotograph a black hole for the very first time\n. The team behind the \nEvent Horizon Telescope\n project was awarded the Breakthrough Prize—known as the Oscars of science—for their effort, and New York’s\nMuseum of Modern Art\nacquired the image\nin the form of an inkjet print.\nNow, the same astronomers have captured the most detailed photograph to date of a black hole, one of the universe’s most enigmatic features, which was once thought to be unobservable.\nSeen in polarized light, the fuzzy ring of light in the original image is now in focus, with crisp lines swirling in toward the center of what appears to be a bottomless pit, sucking in anything and everything within its grasp.\n“It’s like putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses on a bright sunny day—all of a sudden you can see what’s going on,” astronomer Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the\nNew York Times\n.\nThe Event Horizon Telescope was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows the light around the black hole’s boundary. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.\nA black hole is a field of matter so dense that not even rays of light can escape its gravitational pull. But as the black hole inexorably draws in gas, dust, and stars, some light is actually propelled outward in jets of energetic particles.\n“This jet process is totally amazing—something the size of our solar system can shoot out a jet that pierces through entire galaxies and even galaxy neighborhoods,” Event Horizon Telescope team member Sara Issaoun told\nIGN\n.\nThe new image shows the black hole’s vortex, and the magnetic field lines at its inner edge, illustrating how the magnetic field both feeds the black hole’s insatiable hunger and powers the intergalactic fireworks show that surrounds it.\nThis image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO), Goddi et al.\n“The main finding is that we not only see the magnetic fields near the black hole as expected, but they also appear to be strong. Our results indicate that the magnetic fields can push the gas around and resist being stretched. The result is an interesting clue to how black holes feed on gas and grow,” Jason Dexter, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told\nSpace.com\n.\n“We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes, and how activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy,” said Monika Mościbrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group, in a\nstatement\n.\nThe galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.\nThe findings from the new image are the subject of three\npapers\npublished last week in the\nAstrophysical Journal Letters\n, two by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and one by lead author\nCiriaco Goddi\nof Radboud University in the Netherlands.\nThis black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit.\nThe Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.\nCapturing the image was a global effort. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration is powered by eight ground-based radio telescopes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Arizona, and the Antarctic, overseen by an international team of radio astronomers that synchronize their observations by atomic clock. Together, the sites essentially create a planet-sized telescope.\nThe project’s name comes from the point of no return around a black hole. Beyond the event horizon, no light or matter can escape.\nWatch a video approaching the Messier 87 galaxy black hole below.","attrs_markdown":"# Price Database\n10 April 2026\n\n[Artworks](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artworks)\n\n[Artists](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists)\n\nAuctions\n\n- [Artnet Auctions](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/)\n- [Global Auction Houses](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auction-houses)\n\n[Galleries](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/galleries\/)\n\n[Events](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/events\/)\n\n[News](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/)\n\nPrice Database\n\n- [Use the Artnet Price Database](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/price-database)\n- [Market Alerts](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/market-alerts)\n- [Artnet Analytics](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/analytics-reports)\n\nHidden\n\nBuy\n\n- [Browse Artists](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/)\n- [Artnet Auctions](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/)\n- [Browse Galleries](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/galleries\/)\n- [Global Auction Houses](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auction-houses\/)\n- [Events & Exhibitions](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/events\/)\n- [Speak With a Specialist](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/meet-the-specialists\/)\n- [Art Financing](https:\/\/www.artnet.com#)\n- [How to Buy](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/how-to-buy)\n\nSell\n\n- [Sell With Us](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/sell\/)\n- [Become a Gallery Partner](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/gallery-network\/)\n- [Become an Auction Partner](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auction-house-partnerships\/)\n- [Receive a Valuation](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/sell\/)\n- [How to Sell](https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/auctions\/how-to-sell\/)\n\nSearch\n\nHidden\n\n- [Join Artnet PRO](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/subscribe)\n- [About](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about)\n\nMenu\n\n- [News](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/)\n- [Art World](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world)\n  - 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This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Photo by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.]()\n\nA view of the M87 supermassive black hole in polarized light, as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Photo by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.\n\n[Sarah Cascone](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/sarah-cascone-25)  March 31, 2021   [![Share](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/themes\/artnet-news\/assets\/img\/share.svg)](https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share) ShareShare This Article\n\nTwo years ago, astronomers managed to [photograph a black hole for the very first time](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/first-ever-photograph-black-hole-1513762). The team behind the [Event Horizon Telescope](https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/) project was awarded the Breakthrough Prize—known as the Oscars of science—for their effort, and New York’s [Museum of Modern Art](https:\/\/www.moma.org\/) [acquired the image](https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/404638) in the form of an inkjet print.\n\nNow, the same astronomers have captured the most detailed photograph to date of a black hole, one of the universe’s most enigmatic features, which was once thought to be unobservable.\n\n### The best of Artnet News in your inbox.\n[Sign up for our daily newsletter.]()\n\nSeen in polarized light, the fuzzy ring of light in the original image is now in focus, with crisp lines swirling in toward the center of what appears to be a bottomless pit, sucking in anything and everything within its grasp.\n\n“It’s like putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses on a bright sunny day—all of a sudden you can see what’s going on,” astronomer Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the [*New York Times*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/24\/science\/astronomy-messier-87-black-hole.html).\n\n![The Event Horizon Telescope— a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration—was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The image shows the light aroung black hole’s boundary, the event horizon. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2019\/04\/hires-1024x596.jpg)\n\nThe Event Horizon Telescope was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows the light around the black hole’s boundary. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.\n\nA black hole is a field of matter so dense that not even rays of light can escape its gravitational pull. But as the black hole inexorably draws in gas, dust, and stars, some light is actually propelled outward in jets of energetic particles.\n\n“This jet process is totally amazing—something the size of our solar system can shoot out a jet that pierces through entire galaxies and even galaxy neighborhoods,” Event Horizon Telescope team member Sara Issaoun told [IGN](https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/black-hole-photo-illuminates-surrounding-magnetic-fields-details).\n\nThe new image shows the black hole’s vortex, and the magnetic field lines at its inner edge, illustrating how the magnetic field both feeds the black hole’s insatiable hunger and powers the intergalactic fireworks show that surrounds it.\n\n![This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO), Goddi et al.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/03\/merlin_185481840_9950fc3f-11be-47f6-8459-ba4f98680f45-superJumbo-1024x1024.jpg)\n\nThis image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO), Goddi et al.\n\n“The main finding is that we not only see the magnetic fields near the black hole as expected, but they also appear to be strong. Our results indicate that the magnetic fields can push the gas around and resist being stretched. The result is an interesting clue to how black holes feed on gas and grow,” Jason Dexter, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told [Space.com](https:\/\/www.space.com\/first-black-hole-image-polarized-m87).\n\n“We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes, and how activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy,” said Monika Mościbrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group, in a [statement](https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/blog\/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole).\n\n![The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/03\/merlin_185481843_8830d205-a6f8-42a5-bb5a-8c887ec4bddc-superJumbo-1011x1024.jpg)\n\nThe galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.\n\nThe findings from the new image are the subject of three [papers](https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/abe71d) published last week in the [*Astrophysical Journal Letters*](https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/abe4de), two by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and one by lead author [Ciriaco Goddi](https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2105\/eso2105c.pdf) of Radboud University in the Netherlands.\n\nThis black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit.\n\n![The Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/03\/potw1222a-1024x682.jpg)\n\nThe Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.\n\nCapturing the image was a global effort. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration is powered by eight ground-based radio telescopes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Arizona, and the Antarctic, overseen by an international team of radio astronomers that synchronize their observations by atomic clock. Together, the sites essentially create a planet-sized telescope.\n\nThe project’s name comes from the point of no return around a black hole. 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All Rights Reserved.","attrs_readable_markdown":"Two years ago, astronomers managed to [photograph a black hole for the very first time](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/first-ever-photograph-black-hole-1513762). The team behind the [Event Horizon Telescope](https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/) project was awarded the Breakthrough Prize—known as the Oscars of science—for their effort, and New York’s [Museum of Modern Art](https:\/\/www.moma.org\/) [acquired the image](https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/404638) in the form of an inkjet print.\n\nNow, the same astronomers have captured the most detailed photograph to date of a black hole, one of the universe’s most enigmatic features, which was once thought to be unobservable.\n\nSeen in polarized light, the fuzzy ring of light in the original image is now in focus, with crisp lines swirling in toward the center of what appears to be a bottomless pit, sucking in anything and everything within its grasp.\n\n“It’s like putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses on a bright sunny day—all of a sudden you can see what’s going on,” astronomer Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the [*New York Times*](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/24\/science\/astronomy-messier-87-black-hole.html).\n\n![The Event Horizon Telescope— a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration—was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The image shows the light aroung black hole’s boundary, the event horizon. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2019\/04\/hires-1024x596.jpg)\n\nThe Event Horizon Telescope was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows the light around the black hole’s boundary. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.\n\nA black hole is a field of matter so dense that not even rays of light can escape its gravitational pull. But as the black hole inexorably draws in gas, dust, and stars, some light is actually propelled outward in jets of energetic particles.\n\n“This jet process is totally amazing—something the size of our solar system can shoot out a jet that pierces through entire galaxies and even galaxy neighborhoods,” Event Horizon Telescope team member Sara Issaoun told [IGN](https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/black-hole-photo-illuminates-surrounding-magnetic-fields-details).\n\nThe new image shows the black hole’s vortex, and the magnetic field lines at its inner edge, illustrating how the magnetic field both feeds the black hole’s insatiable hunger and powers the intergalactic fireworks show that surrounds it.\n\n![This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO), Goddi et al.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/03\/merlin_185481840_9950fc3f-11be-47f6-8459-ba4f98680f45-superJumbo-1024x1024.jpg)\n\nThis image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO), Goddi et al.\n\n“The main finding is that we not only see the magnetic fields near the black hole as expected, but they also appear to be strong. Our results indicate that the magnetic fields can push the gas around and resist being stretched. The result is an interesting clue to how black holes feed on gas and grow,” Jason Dexter, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told [Space.com](https:\/\/www.space.com\/first-black-hole-image-polarized-m87).\n\n“We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes, and how activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy,” said Monika Mościbrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group, in a [statement](https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/blog\/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole).\n\n![The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/03\/merlin_185481843_8830d205-a6f8-42a5-bb5a-8c887ec4bddc-superJumbo-1011x1024.jpg)\n\nThe galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.\n\nThe findings from the new image are the subject of three [papers](https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/abe71d) published last week in the [*Astrophysical Journal Letters*](https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/abe4de), two by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and one by lead author [Ciriaco Goddi](https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2105\/eso2105c.pdf) of Radboud University in the Netherlands.\n\nThis black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit.\n\n![The Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.](https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/03\/potw1222a-1024x682.jpg)\n\nThe Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.\n\nCapturing the image was a global effort. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration is powered by eight ground-based radio telescopes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Arizona, and the Antarctic, overseen by an international team of radio astronomers that synchronize their observations by atomic clock. Together, the sites essentially create a planet-sized telescope.\n\nThe project’s name comes from the point of no return around a black hole. Beyond the event horizon, no light or matter can escape.\n\nWatch a video approaching the Messier 87 galaxy black hole below.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Two years ago, astronomers managed to photograph a black hole for the very first time . The team behind the Event Horizon Telescope project was awarded the Breakthrough Prize—known as the Oscars of science—for their effort, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired the image in the form of an inkjet print. Now, the same astronomers have captured the most detailed photograph to date of a black hole, one of the universe’s most enigmatic features, which was once thought to be unobservable. Seen in polarized light, the fuzzy ring of light in the original image is now in focus, with crisp lines swirling in toward the center of what appears to be a bottomless pit, sucking in anything and everything within its grasp. “It’s like putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses on a bright sunny day—all of a sudden you can see what’s going on,” astronomer Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the New York Times . The Event Horizon Telescope was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows the light around the black hole’s boundary. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope. A black hole is a field of matter so dense that not even rays of light can escape its gravitational pull. But as the black hole inexorably draws in gas, dust, and stars, some light is actually propelled outward in jets of energetic particles. “This jet process is totally amazing—something the size of our solar system can shoot out a jet that pierces through entire galaxies and even galaxy neighborhoods,” Event Horizon Telescope team member Sara Issaoun told IGN . The new image shows the black hole’s vortex, and the magnetic field lines at its inner edge, illustrating how the magnetic field both feeds the black hole’s insatiable hunger and powers the intergalactic fireworks show that surrounds it. This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al. “The main finding is that we not only see the magnetic fields near the black hole as expected, but they also appear to be strong. Our results indicate that the magnetic fields can push the gas around and resist being stretched. The result is an interesting clue to how black holes feed on gas and grow,” Jason Dexter, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Space.com . “We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes, and how activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy,” said Monika Mościbrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group, in a statement . The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. The findings from the new image are the subject of three papers published last week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters , two by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and one by lead author Ciriaco Goddi of Radboud University in the Netherlands. This black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi. Capturing the image was a global effort. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration is powered by eight ground-based radio telescopes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Arizona, and the Antarctic, overseen by an international team of radio astronomers that synchronize their observations by atomic clock. Together, the sites essentially create a planet-sized telescope. The project’s name comes from the point of no return around a black hole. Beyond the event horizon, no light or matter can escape. Watch a video approaching the Messier 87 galaxy black hole below.
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[Artnet PRO](https://news.artnet.com/topic/news-pro-topic) - [About](https://news.artnet.com/about) ##### [Art & Tech](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/science-technology) # Astronomers Have Captured the Most Detailed Photo of a Black Hole Ever—See the Magnetic Fields That Power It Here The new image was taken two years after the same astronomers captured the first photo of a black hole. ![A view of the M87 supermassive black hole in polarized light, as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Photo by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.]() A view of the M87 supermassive black hole in polarized light, as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Photo by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. [Sarah Cascone](https://news.artnet.com/about/sarah-cascone-25) March 31, 2021 [![Share](https://news.artnet.com/app/themes/artnet-news/assets/img/share.svg)](https://www.addtoany.com/share) ShareShare This Article Two years ago, astronomers managed to [photograph a black hole for the very first time](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/first-ever-photograph-black-hole-1513762). The team behind the [Event Horizon Telescope](https://eventhorizontelescope.org/) project was awarded the Breakthrough Prize—known as the Oscars of science—for their effort, and New York’s [Museum of Modern Art](https://www.moma.org/) [acquired the image](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/404638) in the form of an inkjet print. Now, the same astronomers have captured the most detailed photograph to date of a black hole, one of the universe’s most enigmatic features, which was once thought to be unobservable. ### The best of Artnet News in your inbox. [Sign up for our daily newsletter.]() Seen in polarized light, the fuzzy ring of light in the original image is now in focus, with crisp lines swirling in toward the center of what appears to be a bottomless pit, sucking in anything and everything within its grasp. “It’s like putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses on a bright sunny day—all of a sudden you can see what’s going on,” astronomer Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/science/astronomy-messier-87-black-hole.html). ![The Event Horizon Telescope— a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration—was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The image shows the light aroung black hole’s boundary, the event horizon. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2019/04/hires-1024x596.jpg) The Event Horizon Telescope was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows the light around the black hole’s boundary. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope. A black hole is a field of matter so dense that not even rays of light can escape its gravitational pull. But as the black hole inexorably draws in gas, dust, and stars, some light is actually propelled outward in jets of energetic particles. “This jet process is totally amazing—something the size of our solar system can shoot out a jet that pierces through entire galaxies and even galaxy neighborhoods,” Event Horizon Telescope team member Sara Issaoun told [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/black-hole-photo-illuminates-surrounding-magnetic-fields-details). The new image shows the black hole’s vortex, and the magnetic field lines at its inner edge, illustrating how the magnetic field both feeds the black hole’s insatiable hunger and powers the intergalactic fireworks show that surrounds it. ![This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/03/merlin_185481840_9950fc3f-11be-47f6-8459-ba4f98680f45-superJumbo-1024x1024.jpg) This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al. “The main finding is that we not only see the magnetic fields near the black hole as expected, but they also appear to be strong. Our results indicate that the magnetic fields can push the gas around and resist being stretched. The result is an interesting clue to how black holes feed on gas and grow,” Jason Dexter, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told [Space.com](https://www.space.com/first-black-hole-image-polarized-m87). “We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes, and how activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy,” said Monika Mościbrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group, in a [statement](https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole). ![The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/03/merlin_185481843_8830d205-a6f8-42a5-bb5a-8c887ec4bddc-superJumbo-1011x1024.jpg) The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. The findings from the new image are the subject of three [papers](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe71d) published last week in the [Astrophysical Journal Letters](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe4de), two by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and one by lead author [Ciriaco Goddi](https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2105/eso2105c.pdf) of Radboud University in the Netherlands. This black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit. ![The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/03/potw1222a-1024x682.jpg) The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi. Capturing the image was a global effort. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration is powered by eight ground-based radio telescopes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Arizona, and the Antarctic, overseen by an international team of radio astronomers that synchronize their observations by atomic clock. Together, the sites essentially create a planet-sized telescope. The project’s name comes from the point of no return around a black hole. Beyond the event horizon, no light or matter can escape. Watch a video approaching the Messier 87 galaxy black hole below. [![](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2015/06/sarah_circ-256x256.jpg)](https://news.artnet.com/about/sarah-cascone-25) [Sarah Cascone Senior Writer](https://news.artnet.com/about/sarah-cascone-25) ### The best of Artnet News in your inbox. 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Readable Markdown	Two years ago, astronomers managed to [photograph a black hole for the very first time](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/first-ever-photograph-black-hole-1513762). The team behind the [Event Horizon Telescope](https://eventhorizontelescope.org/) project was awarded the Breakthrough Prize—known as the Oscars of science—for their effort, and New York’s [Museum of Modern Art](https://www.moma.org/) [acquired the image](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/404638) in the form of an inkjet print. Now, the same astronomers have captured the most detailed photograph to date of a black hole, one of the universe’s most enigmatic features, which was once thought to be unobservable. Seen in polarized light, the fuzzy ring of light in the original image is now in focus, with crisp lines swirling in toward the center of what appears to be a bottomless pit, sucking in anything and everything within its grasp. “It’s like putting on a pair of polarized sunglasses on a bright sunny day—all of a sudden you can see what’s going on,” astronomer Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/science/astronomy-messier-87-black-hole.html). ![The Event Horizon Telescope— a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration—was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The image shows the light aroung black hole’s boundary, the event horizon. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2019/04/hires-1024x596.jpg) The Event Horizon Telescope was designed to capture images of a black hole. The image shows the light around the black hole’s boundary. Image courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope. A black hole is a field of matter so dense that not even rays of light can escape its gravitational pull. But as the black hole inexorably draws in gas, dust, and stars, some light is actually propelled outward in jets of energetic particles. “This jet process is totally amazing—something the size of our solar system can shoot out a jet that pierces through entire galaxies and even galaxy neighborhoods,” Event Horizon Telescope team member Sara Issaoun told [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/black-hole-photo-illuminates-surrounding-magnetic-fields-details). The new image shows the black hole’s vortex, and the magnetic field lines at its inner edge, illustrating how the magnetic field both feeds the black hole’s insatiable hunger and powers the intergalactic fireworks show that surrounds it. ![This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/03/merlin_185481840_9950fc3f-11be-47f6-8459-ba4f98680f45-superJumbo-1024x1024.jpg) This image shows the jet in the M87 galaxy in polarized light. It is 6,000 light-years long. Image courtesy of ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Goddi et al. “The main finding is that we not only see the magnetic fields near the black hole as expected, but they also appear to be strong. Our results indicate that the magnetic fields can push the gas around and resist being stretched. The result is an interesting clue to how black holes feed on gas and grow,” Jason Dexter, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told [Space.com](https://www.space.com/first-black-hole-image-polarized-m87). “We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes, and how activity in this very compact region of space can drive powerful jets that extend far beyond the galaxy,” said Monika Mościbrodzka, coordinator of the EHT Polarimetry Working Group, in a [statement](https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole). ![The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/03/merlin_185481843_8830d205-a6f8-42a5-bb5a-8c887ec4bddc-superJumbo-1011x1024.jpg) The galaxy Messier 87, in the constellation Virgo, as capture by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Photo courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. The findings from the new image are the subject of three [papers](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe71d) published last week in the [Astrophysical Journal Letters](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe4de), two by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and one by lead author [Ciriaco Goddi](https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2105/eso2105c.pdf) of Radboud University in the Netherlands. This black hole captured by the telescope lies 55 million light-years away, at the heart Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. At 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun, it is unimaginably supermassive—the surrounding circular field of electrified gas or plasma captured in the image measures about 30 billion miles across, or four times Pluto’s orbit. ![The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/03/potw1222a-1024x682.jpg) The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), part of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, set against the Milky Way. Photo by European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi. Capturing the image was a global effort. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration is powered by eight ground-based radio telescopes in Chile, Mexico, Spain, Hawaii, Arizona, and the Antarctic, overseen by an international team of radio astronomers that synchronize their observations by atomic clock. Together, the sites essentially create a planet-sized telescope. The project’s name comes from the point of no return around a black hole. Beyond the event horizon, no light or matter can escape. Watch a video approaching the Messier 87 galaxy black hole below.
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