- A team of scientists say they’ve unearthed a photon ring, a thin halo of light around the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. If real, the photon ring would provide a new probe of the black hole’s intense gravity. But other scientists dispute the claim. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/disputed-photon-ring-supermassive-black-hole-image-eht 4 comments science
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- The Photon Ring in M87* - IOPscience https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c1d 0 comments
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