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Old 16-09-2021, 12:27 AM
Lariliss (Larissa)
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Originally Posted by Granada View Post
which photons are they referring to? Could it be the photons emitted by the stuff around the black hole, which is what we ended up seeing in the image they captured?
The captured photons are of the matter around the black hole. Astronomers have also measured polarization close to the edge of a black hole (event horizon). This is a breakthrough in the observations and measurements of the black holes and more results to come from the obtained data analysis.
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