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A 9-Month Hubble Space Telescope Near-UV Survey of #M87 - A Strongly Enhanced #Nova Rate near the #Jet of M87: arxiv.org/abs/2309.16856 -> Hubble finds that a black hole beam promotes stellar eruptions: esahubble.org/news/heic2411/ and hubblesite.org/contents/news-r

arXiv.orgA 9-Month Hubble Space Telescope Near-UV Survey of M87. II. A Strongly Enhanced Nova Rate near the Jet of M87The 135 classical novae that we have discovered in M87 with two $\textit{Hubble Space Telescope}$ imaging surveys appear to be strongly concentrated along that galaxy's jet. Detailed simulations show that the likelihood that this distribution occurred by chance is of order $0.3\%$. The novae near the jet display outburst characteristics (peak luminosities, colors and decline rates) that are indistinguishable from novae far from the jet. We explore whether the remarkable nova distribution could be caused by the jet's irradiation of the hydrogen-rich donors in M87's cataclysmic binaries. This explanation, and others extant in the literature which rely on increased binary mass transfer rates, fail by orders of magnitude in explaining the enhanced nova rate near the jet. An alternate explanation is the presence of a genuine surplus of nova binary systems near the jet, perhaps due to jet-induced star formation. This explanation fails to explain the lack of nova enhancement along M87's counterjet. The enhanced rate of novae along M87's jet is now firmly established, and unexplained.

Artist's illustrations of #BlackHoles often have this characteristic ring which is in front of the #BlackHole and continues "above". This ring is an #AccretionDisk made of hot matter on an orbit of the black hole. The strange shape of this ring is due to light bending by the black hole's incredible strong gravitation, which makes something which is *behind* the black hole appear to be above it. [1/3]
#science #physics #gravitation #gravity #M87 #SagittariusA

Milchstraße: Magnetfelder am Rand des zentralen schwarzen Lochs
Bild des EHT hat starke & geordnete Magnetfelder aufgespürt, vom Rand des supermassereichen schwarzen Lochs Sgr A* ausgehend. Neuer Blick auf Herzen der Milchstraße, zeigt in polarisiertem Licht Magnetfeldstruktur, der der des schwarzen Lochs im Zentrum der Galaxie #M87 verblüffend ähneln. Deutet an, starke Magnetfelder allen schwarzen Löchern gemeinsam. Pressemitteilung des #ESON Bild: #EHT Collaboration
raumfahrer.net/milchstrasse-ma