UM astronomer publishes black hole research paper

One giant step for astronomy: A composite image showing how the M87 system looked, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, during the Event Horizon Telescope’s April 2017 campaign to take the historic first image of a black hole. Requiring 19 facilities on the Earth and in space, this image reveals the enormous scale spanned by the black hole and its forward-pointing jet, spanning the entire galaxy.

PETALING JAYA: An astronomer from Universiti Malaya (UM) is the first author to publish data from captured images of the closest look at a violent jet emitted by a supermassive black hole.

Dr Juan Carlos Algaba said the data shows that astronomers could put constraints to test the theory of relativity on black holes.