{"id":118397,"date":"2019-04-11T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/how-scientists-took-the-first-picture-of-a-black-hole-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:32:54","slug":"how-scientists-took-the-first-picture-of-a-black-hole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/how-scientists-took-the-first-picture-of-a-black-hole-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How scientists took the first picture of a black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes are extremely camera shy. Supermassive black holes, ensconced in the centers of galaxies, make themselves visible by spewing bright jets of charged particles or by flinging away or ripping up nearby stars. Up close, these behemoths are surrounded by glowing accretion disks of infalling material. But because a black holes extreme gravity prevents light from escaping, the dark hearts of these cosmic heavy hitters remain entirely invisible.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, theres a way to \u201csee\u201d a black hole without peering into the abyss itself. Telescopes can look instead for the silhouette of a black holes event horizon \u2014 the perimeter inside which nothing can be seen or escape \u2014 against its accretion disk. Thats what the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, did in April 2017, collecting data that has now yielded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/black-hole-first-picture-event-horizon-telescope\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first image of a supermassive black hole, the one inside the galaxy M87<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing better than having an image,\u201d says Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Though scientists have collected plenty of indirect evidence for black holes over the last half century, \u201cseeing is believing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Creating that first-ever portrait of a black hole was tricky, though. Black holes take up a minuscule sliver of sky and, from Earth, appear very faint. The project of imaging M87s black hole required observatories across the globe working in tandem as one virtual Earth-sized radio dish with sharper vision than any single observatory could achieve on its own.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040419_mt_eht-array_inline-map_370.jpg\" title=\"Getting the first picture of a black hole required connecting radio observatories spanning almost the entire globe in a network called the Event Horizon Telescope. ~~ NRAO\/AUI\/NSF\"\/>  <\/p>\n<h3><strong>Putting the solution in resolution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Weighing in around 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun, the supermassive black hole inside M87 is no small fry. But viewed from 55 million light-years away on Earth, the black hole is only about 42 microarcseconds across on the sky. Thats smaller than an orange on the moon would appear to someone on Earth. Still, besides the black hole at the center of our own galaxy, Sagittarius A* or Sgr A* \u2014 the EHTs other imaging target \u2014 M87s black hole is the largest black hole silhouette on the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Only a telescope with unprecedented resolution could pick out something so tiny. (For comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope can distinguish objects only about as small as 50,000 microarcseconds.) A telescopes resolution depends on its diameter: The bigger the dish, the clearer the view \u2014 and getting a crisp image of a supermassive black hole would require a planet-sized radio dish.<\/p>\n<h4>More on black holes[hhmc]<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>Even for radio astronomers, who are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/blog\/science-public\/new-questions-about-arecibos-future-swirl-wake-hurricane-maria\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no strangers to building big dishes<\/a> (<em>SN Online: 9\/29\/17<\/em>), \u201cthis seems a little too ambitious,\u201d says Loeb, who was not involved in the black hole imaging project. \u201cThe trick is that you dont cover the entire Earth with an observatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a technique called very long baseline interferometry combines radio waves seen by many telescopes at once, so that the telescopes effectively work together like one giant dish. The diameter of that virtual dish is equal to the length of the longest distance, or baseline, between two telescopes in the network. For the EHT in 2017, that was the distance from the South Pole to Spain.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Telescopes, assemble! <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The EHT was not always the hotshot array that it is today, though. In 2009, a network of just four observatories \u2014 in Arizona, California and Hawaii \u2014 got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/team-glimpses-black-hole%E2%80%99s-secrets\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first good look<\/a> at the base of one of the plasma jets spewing from the center of M87s black hole (<em>SN: 11\/3\/12, p. 10<\/em>). But the small telescope cohort didnt yet have the magnifying power to reveal the black hole itself.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the EHT recruited new radio observatories. By 2017, there were eight observing stations in North America, Hawaii, Europe, South America and the South Pole. Among the newcomers was the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, located on a high plateau in northern Chile. With a combined dish area larger than an American football field, ALMA collects far more radio waves than other observatories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cALMA changed everything,\u201d says Vincent Fish, an astronomer at MITs Haystack Observatory in Westford, Mass. \u201cAnything that you were just barely struggling to detect before, you get really solid detections now.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Dream team[hhmc]<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>These eight radio observatories teamed up in 2017 to work together as a global telescope, called the Event Horizon Telescope network. Their mission: to image a supermassive black hole for the first time. Data from seven were used to create a picture of the black hole inside the galaxy M87; since M87 appears in the northern sky, the South Pole observatory couldnt see it. Heres where the observatories are located and how many dishes they contributed to the effort.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow1_REV.jpg\" title=\" ~~ H. Calder\u00f3n\/ALMA, ESO, NRAO, NAOJ\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Atacama Pathfinder Experiment\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow2_REV.jpg\" title=\" ~~ B. Tafreshi\/ESO (APEX) \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IRAM 30-meter telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow3.jpg\" title=\" ~~ Nicolas Billot\/IRAM \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Large Millimeter Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow4.jpg\" title=\" ~~ James Lowenthal\/Smith College, UMass Amherst (LMT)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Submillimeter Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow5_REV.jpg\" title=\" ~~ David Harvey\/Univ. of Ariz. (SMT)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Clerk Maxwell Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow6.jpg\" title=\"~~ David Nunuk\/Science Source (JCMT)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Submillimeter Array\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow7.jpg\" title=\" ~~ Shelbi R. Schimpf (SMA)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Pole Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040519_mt_eht-array_slideshow8.jpg\" title=\" ~~ Daniel Luong-Van\/NSF (SPT)\"\/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>More than the sum of their parts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>EHT observing campaigns are best run within about 10 days in late March or early April, when the weather at every observatory promises to be the most cooperative. Researchers biggest enemy is water in the atmosphere, like rain or snow, which can muddle with the millimeter-wavelength radio waves that the EHTs telescopes are tuned to.<\/p>\n<p>But planning for weather on several continents can be a logistical headache.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery morning, theres a frenetic set of phone calls and analyses of weather data and telescope readiness, and then we make a go\/no-go decision for the nights observing,\u201d says astronomer Geoffrey Bower of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Hilo, Hawaii. Early in the campaign, researches are picky about conditions. But toward the tail end of the run, theyll take what they can get.<\/p>\n<p>When the skies are clear enough to observe, researchers steer the telescopes at each EHT observatory toward the vicinity of a supermassive black hole and begin collecting radio waves. Since M87s black hole and Sgr A* appear on the sky one at a time \u2014 each one about to rise just as the other sets \u2014 the EHT can switch back and forth between observing its two targets over the course of a single multi-day campaign. All eight observatories can track Sgr A*, but M87 is in the northern sky and beyond the South Pole stations sight.<\/p>\n<p>On their own, the data from each observing station look like nonsense. But taken together using the very long baseline interferometry technique, these data can reveal a black holes appearance.  <\/p>\n<p>Heres how it works. Picture a pair of radio dishes aimed at a single target, in this case the ring-shaped silhouette of a black hole. The radio waves emanating from each bit of that ring must travel slightly different paths to reach each telescope. These radio waves can interfere with each other, sometimes reinforcing one another and sometimes canceling each other out. The interference pattern seen by each telescope depends on how the radio waves from different parts of the ring are interacting when they reach that telescopes location.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019\/04\/040319_MT_EHT_inline_2_370.jpg\" title=\"M87s supermassive black hole spits out bright jets of charged subatomic particles that extend thousands of light-years (as seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image). Researchers hope the Event Horizon Telescopes observations will help uncover the origins of these cosmic light shows. ~~ HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (AURA\/STSCI), NASA \"\/>  For simple targets, such as individual stars, the radio wave patterns picked up by a single pair of telescopes provide enough information for researchers to work backward and figure out what distribution of light must have produced those data. But for a source with complex structure, like a black hole, there are too many possible solutions for what the image could be. Researchers need more data to work out how a black holes radio waves are interacting with each other, offering more clues about what the black hole looks like.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal array has as many baselines of different lengths and orientations as possible. Telescope pairs that are farther apart can see finer details, because theres a bigger difference between the pathways that radio waves take from the black hole to each telescope. The EHT includes telescope pairs with both north-south and east-west orientations, which change relative to the black hole as Earth rotates. <\/p>\n<h3><strong>Pulling it all together<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In order to braid together the observations from each observatory, researchers need to record times for their data with exquisite precision. For that, they use hydrogen maser atomic clocks, which lose about one second every 100 million years.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of data to time stamp. \u201cIn our last experiment, we recorded data at a rate of 64 gigabits per second, which is about 1,000 times [faster than] your home internet connection,\u201d Bower says.<\/p>\n<p>These data are then transferred to MIT Haystack Observatory and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, for processing in a special kind of supercomputer called a correlator. But each telescope station amasses hundreds of terabytes of information during a single observing campaign \u2014 far too much to send over the internet. So the researchers use the next best option: snail mail. So far, there have been no major shipping mishaps, but Bower admits that mailing the disks is always a little nerve-wracking.<\/p>\n<p>Though most of the EHT data reached Haystack and Max Planck within weeks of the 2017 observing campaign, there were no flights from South Pole until November. \u201cWe didnt get the data back from the South Pole until mid-December,\u201d says Fish, the MIT Haystack astronomer.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Filling in the blanks<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Combining the EHT data still isnt enough to render a vivid picture of a supermassive black hole. 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