If you’ve seen lunar eclipses before, The halo that appears around the moon Maybe you’ve seen it. A similar structure is found around the sun and black holes. Scientists have succeeded in imaging the halo around black holes.

scientists, theoretical He stated that black holes must also have a halo around them. Like the sun’s halo, black hole halos are very difficult to see. A new study has clearly demonstrated this halo.

It was a first in history

Around active black holes donut shapedIt was thought that there was a ring made up of gas and dust. This ring acts as a rotating disk of accelerated particles. Ionized gas flowing from the polar regions of black holes is blown at almost the speed of light.

This study active galactic nucleus (AGN) It will pave the way for further progress in research into the models. According to this model, the inside of the disk has a vacuum density and an extremely high temperature.

Researchers, halo of the sun They used a method similar to the one used to detect it and waited for a celestial body to pass between a black hole and Earth, such as during a solar eclipse. In this case, the halos of black holes are not actually visible, but halosIt emits extremely high energy X-rays. Scientists have also collected data on these black holes using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer tool. They used this data to create the model.

Research ‘The Astrophysical Diary’It was also published.