Andrew Chael

@thisgreyspirit.bsky.social

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Somewhat functional assortment of 7 billion billion billion atoms. Astrophysicist taking pictures of black holes. he/him.🔭📡⚫🏳️‍🌈

Images from a simulation of a supermassive black hole showing the circle of glowing plasma in the core region around the black hole on the left, and a zoom out view of the jet launched to large distances on the right.
An image from a simulation of an accretion disk and jet around a black hole in the magnetically arrested state. A disk of plasma spirals in to the equator of the central black hole, and tangled magnetic fields emerge from the north and south poles in relativistic jets.
An image of the supermassive black hole in M87 produced by the Event Horizon Telescope. Hot plasma glows in a ring around a central dark spot. Streaks on the lower right part of the image show where the light is linearly polarized, tracing the black hole's magnetic fields.