Tag: supermassive black holes
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Mapping a black hole’s magnetic field, using a pulsar
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies generate a lot of light, produced by hot plasma swirling around them. That plasma both produces and is shaped by powerful magnetic fields — at least according to theory. In the case of the Milky Way, new observations have provided the first measurements of the magnetic field…
Galileo's Pendulum 