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Currently Playing: A New Image of THAT Black Hole ⚫ - Sixty Symbols

Professor Mike Merrifield discusses a new image revealing polarised light (and the magnetic field) around M87's supermassive black hole. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓ Our video on the original image: https://youtu.be/rflupY5Aa-Q See our black hole playlist of videos: http://bit.ly/Black_Hole_Videos Event Horizon Telescope: https://eventhorizontelescope.org More about the new image: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole Mike Merrifield is an astronomer at The University of Nottingham - https://twitter.com/AstroMikeMerri Many images courtesy of ESO - see more at: https://www.eso.org PAPERS... First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe4de First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe71d Polarisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2TkM0hzW8 Deep Sky Videos on M87: https://youtu.be/ppIk7h0XHBE Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at http://twitter.com/sixtysymbols This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham http://bit.ly/NottsPhysics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sixtysymbols Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran http://www.bradyharanblog.com Email list: http://eepurl.com/YdjL9