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M87 Releases a Rare and Powerful Outburts of Gamma-ray Radiation
- The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the first high-energy gamma-ray outburst observed in over a decade from M87's powerful relativistic jet.
- This Gamma-ray flare reveals a tremendous amount of energy in multiple wavelengths and helps constrain the size of the region responsible for the observed emission,
- allowing researchers to study the physics surrounding M87's supermassive black hole.
- The multi-wavelength campaign leveraged data from more than two dozen high-profile observational facilities, including Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
- The flare lasted approximately three days and occupied a region roughly three light-days in size.
- The discovery could create opportunities for future research and lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the Universe,
- The EHT collaboration comprises researchers from thirteen universities and institutes worldwide.
- The study presents data from the second EHT observational campaign conducted in April 2018, which obtained nearly simultaneous spectra of the M87 galaxy with the broadest wavelength coverage ever collected.
- The flare revealed that particles in supermassive black hole jets are accelerated in a unique way that cannot be explained by current theories.
- This marks another important step towards understanding the universe.
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