NASA publishes sharp images of unprecedented sharp images of black holes

In response to the ongoing black hole week, NASA recently released the first simulation image of a black hole with unprecedented sharpness.

The impressive image, created by Professor Jeremy Schnittman using custom software at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is based on the first image of a black hole in history taken by the Event Horizon telescope ( EHT) , helping us visualize more visually the most mysterious object in this universe.

The sharp image of a black hole has just been published by NASA.(Photo: NASA).

Located at the center of galaxies, black holes are the common name for dense regions of space with enormous gravitational forces, so much so that even light cannot escape.

So far, all we know about black holes is that they are gigantic, millions or billions times the mass of the Sun. They can suck all of their surroundings, control the formation of stars, and may even become the brightest object in the universe.

The first snapshot of the black hole of the EHT telescope.(Photo: NASA).

The image of NASA's black hole is modeled as a slice, so the light in the top corner of the real image is the back part of the black hole. With this image, we can see that the left side is brighter than the right, because that's the black hole facing our planet. This cosmic phenomenon is called the "Doppler beam" - the brightness of a black hole gets bigger as it turns towards us, and vice versa.

In fact, the first simulated image of a black hole was calculated using a computer using the IBM 7040 punch card in the 1960s, and was hand-painted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978. However, this image compared to the recent image of NASA has the similarities.

The first hand drawing of the black hole by Jean-Pierre Luminet.

'This simulation is one of the biggest breakthroughs in black hole research , ' said Professor Jeremy Schnittman, "It really helps us to visualize the meaning of Einstein's statement when he "I think that gravity can bend both space and time. I never thought I could see a true black hole."

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