MIT: "Measuring the universe’s ‘exit door’"
This image, created using computer models, shows how the extreme gravity of the black hole in M87 distorts the appearance of the jet near the event horizon. Part of the radiation from the jet is bent by gravity into a ring that is known as the 'shadow' of the black hole.Image: Avery E. Broderick (Perimeter Institute & University of Waterloo)
"For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole."
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office.
M87 manuscript published in Science