Event Horizon Telescope captures new view of black hole in polarized light

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From Ars Technica:
"...the EHT collaboration is back with another groundbreaking result: a new image of the same black hole, this time showing how it looks in polarized light. The ability to measure that polarization for the first time—a signature of magnetic fields at the black hole's edge—is expected to yield fresh insight into how black holes gobble up matter and emit powerful jets from their cores. The new findings were described in three papers published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03 ... zed-light/

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