Scientists have successfully taken first ever picture of the shadow of a nyeusi shimo providing direct observation of its immediate environment
Image taken from “EHTC, Akiyama K et al 2019, ‘First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Shimo Nyeusi‘, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 875, no. L1.”
Mkubwa zaidi mashimo meusi were first predicted by Einstein in 1915 in his General Theory of Relativity when he showed gravity bends light. There have been many developments since then but never any direct evidence. Scientists were only able to detect them indirectly. The first real picture of the shadow of a super massive nyeusi shimo has now been captured providing first direct evidence of their presence, thanks to ”The Tukio Horizon Darubini Ushirikiano”.
The mashimo meusi are extremely compressed mass in a very small region. Its gravity is so high that nothing at all escapes if gets too close to its boundary. The Tukio Horizon is the boundary around the nyeusi shimo that marks what is inside and what is outside. Once anything crosses this boundary, it gets swallowed and can never come out. Mashimo meusi swallow all light therefore they are invisible and cannot be seen or pictured.
The intense gravity of nyeusi shimo attracts and pulls interstellar gas onto itself faster and faster. This heats up the gas immensely and light radiation is emitted. These emissions are warped into a circular ring by the gravity of the nyeusi shimo.
A nyeusi shimo itself is invisible but its shadow against super-heated gas cloud around it could be pictured.
Black hole’s presence couldn’t be directly observed uptill now mainly due to the fact that mashimo meusi are extremely small targets for the available redio telescopes which were not capable enough to observe their event horizon. Observing mashimo meusi directly needed building an ingenious telescope virtually the size of Earth.
It took about a decade to organise a network of telescopes called the ”Event Horizon Telescope” spanning the face of the Earth which combined eight separate telescopes in Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii, Chile and South Pole. All eight dishes of the telescope needed to be linked and pointed towards the nyeusi shimo at exactly the same time. The signals received by the telescopes were combined by a correlator (a super computer) to give an image of the event horizon of the nyeusi shimo.
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Chanzo (s)
1. EHTC, Akiyama K et al 2019. Matokeo ya Kwanza ya darubini ya Tukio la M87 ya Horizon. I. Kivuli cha Shimo Nyeusi Kubwa Zaidi'. Barua za Jarida la Astrophysical, 875(L1) https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0ec7
2. Max Planck Institute for radio Astronomy, 2019. First-ever picture of a black hole. Retrieved from https://www.mpg.de/13337404/first-ever-picture-of-black-hole
3. BlackHoleCam, 2019. KUWAZA UPEO WA TUKIO LA MASHIMO NYEUSI, Imetolewa kutoka https://blackholecam.org/
4. Tume ya Ulaya - Taarifa kwa vyombo vya habari, 2019. Wanasayansi wanaofadhiliwa na Umoja wa Ulaya wafichua picha ya kwanza kabisa ya shimo jeusi. Imetolewa kutoka http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-2053_en.htm
