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Head’s up space fans: A new picture of the supermassive black hole lurking in the galaxy M87 just dropped.
The new image looks a lot like the previous, headline-grabbing shot revealed in 2019 (SN: 4/10/19). The main difference is that the brightest spot around the black hole has shifted counterclockwise by about 30 degrees, researchers report January 18 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. This is probably due to material sloshing around in the black hole’s accretion disk as it gets consumed.
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