[HN Gopher] M87* One Year Later: Catching the Black Hole's Turbu...
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       M87* One Year Later: Catching the Black Hole's Turbulent Accretion
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       Author : jmainh
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-01-22 19:03 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (eventhorizontelescope.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (eventhorizontelescope.org)
        
       | versteegen wrote:
       | What I think is the most interesting part:
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       | > "When gas spirals into a black hole from afar, it can either
       | flow in the same direction the black hole is rotating, or in the
       | opposite direction. We found that the latter case is more likely
       | to match the multi-year observations thanks to their relatively
       | higher turbulent variability"
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       | The direction the black hole is rotating makes a difference due
       | to frame dragging.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging
        
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