“This could have important implications for interferometry, which plays a role in fields from exoplanets to medicine,” Medeiros said.

And that’s not all: The machine learning techniques employed by PRIMO could be applied to much more than black holes. PRIMO can also be used to sharpen up the Event Horizon Telescope’s fuzzy view of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. The black hole the first, and only, black hole. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local. 9 Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. Catching its shadow involved eight ground-based radio telescopes around the globe, operating together as if they were one. The black hole lies at the center of an elliptical galaxy called Messier 87 (M87), which is located roughly 55 million light-years from Earth. Virgo A, Virgo X-1, NGC 4486, UGC 7654, PGC 41361, VCC 1316, Arp 152, 3C 274, 5 3U 1228+12. This black hole is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun. The sharper image of M87 is just the start. This is confirmed by a 2015 study in which the Schwartzchild radius of M87 was found to be 5.9x10-4 pc, as opposed to the distance of 7.04x10-4 pc, at the. The stunning new image shows the shadow of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87), an elliptical galaxy some 55 million light-years from Earth.

Those determinations, in turn, could lead to more robust tests of alternative theories relating to black holes and gravity. The researchers say the new image should lead to more precise determinations of the mass of M87’s black hole and the extent of its event horizon and accretion ring. The resulting image was then reprocessed to match the EHT’s actual maximum resolution.

The simulations that provided the best fit for the available data were blended together to produce a high-fidelity reconstruction of missing data. Keep in mind, M87’s black hole is between about 3 and 7 billion times the mass of the Sun, or about 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A. M87 is one of the largest known black holes in the. Tens of thousands of simulated EHT images were fed into the PRIMO model, covering a wide range of structural patterns for the gas swirling into M87’s black hole. Astronomers have now obtained a new view of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. That process occurs much more quickly with this black hole than with M87, which is one reason why the new image took so much longer to produce.

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