Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

Researcher, Australia Telescope National Facility

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Independent method confirms M87* black hole ring

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Co-author of the GenDIReCT M87* study

In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of a black hole: a bright ring around the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. Some later reanalyses argued the ring could be an artifact of how the sparse telescope data were processed.

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