Hold onto your telescopes, space fans! 🔭 The iconic M87 black hole—the same cosmic celebrity that gave us humanity’s first-ever black hole selfie in 2019—just dropped a new look. Fresh images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration show its magnetic fields doing a full 180, flipping directions like a cosmic fashionista switching outfits. 🌀
Think of it as a galactic glow-up: In 2017, the magnetic fields spiraled one way. By 2018, they chilled out. But in 2021? Total reversal! Scientists say this magnetic ‘dance’ reveals how energy and matter get sucked into the black hole—or blasted out as jets that shape entire galaxies. 💫
‘It’s like watching a cosmic engine in action,’ said researchers, including teams from China’s Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. The new data also caught the first glimpses of a high-speed jet near the black hole’s base—a key clue in solving how these jets power galaxy evolution. 🚀
Why care? Because M87’s drama isn’t just intergalactic tea ☕—it’s a masterclass in how black holes control star formation and energy flow across the universe. Ready for your mind to be sucked into this vortex of discovery? 🌠
