Theoretical physicists from the University of Goethe together with scientists from Europe, the United States and China first modified the area of the neighbor’s black hole M87, from where the relativistic plasma jet comes from. This allows you to explain the power source of the jet energy, which moves at the speed of light and permeates the space by six thousand light years. This is reported in the article published in the Nature Astronomy magazine.
Researchers conducted the most complicated three-dimensional modeling on a supercomputer, given the solutions of the equation of the general theory of the relativity of Albert Einstein, James Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations and the equations of Leonard Euler fluid dynamics. Scientists were able to track down the complex movement of photons in the curved space-time of the inner region of the jet and convert it into radio elections, similar to what was obtained during the observations for M87.
According to scientists, the resulting theoretical model of electromagnetic radiation and morphology of the M87 jet agreed well with observations in radio, optical and infrared spectra. The supermassive black hole is likely to quickly rotate, and the plasma in the jet is very magnetized and accelerates particles to the near-light velocity.
M87 is located at a distance of 55 million light years from the Earth in the constellation of the Virgin. A black hole weigh six and a half billion of the solar masses is located in the center of this galaxy. This is the first black hole, the image of which was obtained in 2019 by the International Research Collaboration Event Horizon Telescope.