• The journey of lights to a black hole

    In today’s post, I would like to briefly talk about the features shown in the recent black hole image, and the efforts many people have paid for interpreting them. Someone would say that a black hole must be in the form of singularity, which makes it extremely difficult to prove its existence. However, over the decades, many theoretical works have been devoted to understanding the nature of the black hole and the effects of the general relativity; and providing the observational signatures that are expected. By the huge efforts of the international collaboration, the event horizon telescope (EHT) team has revealed the unprecedented image of the nucleus of the nearby…

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