Event Horizon Telescope capture Black Hole Sagittarius A 27000 light years away Show Strong Magnetic Field Around

You must have heard about Black Hole. This is said to be a place in space which is very mysterious. It is said that even light cannot pass through a black hole. Whatever goes inside it never comes out, because its gravity is so strong. Now a black hole has been detected in our galaxy Milky Way, around which there is a very powerful magnetic field. Event Horizon Telescope, also known as EHT, has taken its pictures.

The black hole named Sagittarius A* is present right in the center of our galaxy. It is 27 thousand light years away from the Earth. EHT Blog According to , it is a giant black hole which is said to have a very powerful magnetic field at both its ends. The Astrophysical Journal Letters This study has been mentioned in. Which suggests that this type of magnetic field must be present around all black holes.

The black hole Sagittarius A* is not the first captured by the EHT. Earlier in 2019, a similar black hole had been discovered in the center of galaxy M87. This black hole is said to be thousands of times bigger and farther away than the black hole of the Milky Way. In 2021, the EHT team observed the black hole in polarized light and created a chart of magnetic lines around it that shows particle patterns rotating around magnetic field lines. With the help of this technique, researchers also detected the magnetic field around Sagittarius A*.

The report said that seeing and capturing Sagittarius A* was a very difficult task. For this, the team took its photographs from many angles and then combined them to create an image. According to astronomer Geoffrey Bower of Academia Sinica in Taiwan, when an attempt was made to take a picture of Sagittarius A*, it was not found in its place. It was moving. Therefore, capturing its non-polarized image was also very difficult.