Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2012 Sep 27
For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole.
- [i]An accretion disk (orange) of gas and dust surrounds super-massive black holes at the center of most galaxies. These disks of galactic matter emit magnetic beams (pink lines) that spew out from the center of the black hole, drawing matter out from both ends in high-powered jets. (Image: NASA and Ann Field (STScI))[/i]