The photon ring: A black hole ready for its close-up

When scientists unveiled humanity’s historic first image of a black hole in 2019—depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward it—they believed even richer imagery and insights were waiting to be teased out of the data.


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Source: Phys.org