Snapshot image from radiative simulations of M87 black hole (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Snapshot image from radiative simulations of M87 black hole

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Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists sharpen their understanding about the environment beyond a black hole’s ‘shadow,’ material just outside its event horizon.

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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf200

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