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Science Briefing05/02/2019
Gazing into the Abyss: The Black Hole in M87Dr. Dom Pesce (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian )
Dr. Joey Neilsen (Villanova University)
Facilitator: Dr. Brandon Lawton (STScI)
1. Dr. Dom Pesce (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
The first image of a black hole.
2. Dr. Joey Neilsen (Villanova University)Understanding M87’s jet and the environment of the black hole through X-ray imaging.
3. Q&A
4. Brandon Lawton (STScI)Resources for learning
5. Q & A
Outline of this Science Briefing
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M87
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M87
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Virgo
M87
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Virgo
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
M87
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Virgo
Rogelio Bernal Andreo
NASA/ESA/HST; P. Cote, E. Baltz
M87
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Rogelio Bernal Andreo
NASA/ESA/HST; P. Cote, E. Baltz
HST
M87
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Rogelio Bernal Andreo
NASA/ESA/HST; P. Cote, E. Baltz
HST
The shadow of a black hole
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NSF
The shadow of a black hole
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A telescope the size of the Earth
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= active sites= sites in commission= legacy sites
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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“Virtual mirror”
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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Credit: Lindy Blackburn
Imaging algorithms
Creating an image: four teams
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Harvard-Smithsonian University of ArizonaU. Concepcion
MIT HaystackRadboud UniversityNAOJ
MPIfRBoston University
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Credit: Katie Bouman
Creating an image: two algorithms
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Credit: Katie Bouman
RegularizedMaximumLikelihood
CLEAN+
Self-calibration
Creating an image
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Creating an image
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EHT institutions
X-rays and the Shadow of M87
• Joey Neilsen (Villanova University)
• EHT Multi-wavelength Working Group
• “X-rays and the Shadow of M87”
• How can X-ray observations of M87 help us understand jets from black holes?
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Credit, X-ray: NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen, Radio: Event
Horizon Telescope Collaboration
Jets From Black Holes??!?
• ”Wait a minute, I thought nothing can escape a black hole’s gravity”
• Nothing can escape from inside a black hole
• Possible for material near black hole to escape
• Common example: “jets”
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Radio jet from the supermassive black hole in Cygnus A; length 300,000 ly
(Image Credit: NRAO/AUI)
Lobe
How Are Jets Formed?
• Several different ways to produce jets in astrophysics
• All involve a rotating magnetic field
• Nearby stuff (gas, particles) get channeled into a beam, accelerated
• How do they get this energy? How are particles accelerated?
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Artist’s Conception of a black hole w/jet
Image Credit: NASA/Caltech/JPL
Rotating MagneticField
“Accretion Disk”
Black Hole
M87 Has A Famous Jet
• M87 is a very well known source of radio jets (image at right)
• Top left of image: the galaxy M87
• Elliptical galaxy, 53 million light years away
• Twice the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy
• Jet extends thousands of light years from center
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The Jet in M87
Image Credit: NASA and the Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Why Are X-rays Useful For Understanding Jets?
• Empirically: X-ray telescopes are good at seeing jets
• Example: Pictor A galaxy
• Colors: Blue = X-ray, Red = Radio
• Narrow jet shows up clearly in X-rays, along with BH and hotspots
• Why? Seeing energetic particles!
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The Radio/X-ray Jet in Pictor A
Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Hertfordshire/M.Hardcastle et al., Radio:
CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA
What About M87?
• M87’s jet is very well studied
• Top: Chandra, X-ray
• Bottom Left: VLAradio
• Bottom right: Hubble, visible
• What does X-ray see? “Knots”
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Credit:X-ray: NASA/ CXC/MIT/H. Marshall et al.Radio: F. Zhou, F.Owen (NRAO), J.Biretta (STScI)Optical: NASA/ STScI/UMBC/E. Perlman et al.
What About M87?
• M87’s jet is very well studied
• Top: Chandra, X-ray
• Bottom Left: VLAradio
• Bottom right: Hubble, visible
• What does X-ray see? “Knots”
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Credit:X-ray: NASA/ CXC/MIT/H. Marshall et al.Radio: F. Zhou, F.Owen (NRAO), J.Biretta (STScI)Optical: NASA/ STScI/UMBC/E. Perlman et al.
Knot A
What About M87?
• M87’s jet is very well studied
• Top: Chandra, X-ray
• Bottom Left: VLAradio
• Bottom right: Hubble, visible
• What does X-ray see? “Knots”
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Credit:X-ray: NASA/ CXC/MIT/H. Marshall et al.Radio: F. Zhou, F.Owen (NRAO), J.Biretta (STScI)Optical: NASA/ STScI/UMBC/E. Perlman et al.
Knot A
Knot D
What About M87?
• M87’s jet is very well studied
• Top: Chandra, X-ray
• Bottom Left: VLAradio
• Bottom right: Hubble, visible
• What does X-ray see? “Knots”
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Credit:X-ray: NASA/ CXC/MIT/H. Marshall et al.Radio: F. Zhou, F.Owen (NRAO), J.Biretta (STScI)Optical: NASA/ STScI/UMBC/E. Perlman et al.
Knot A
Knot D
X-ray Wishlist
• What do we want to learn from studying M87 w/X-ray telescopes and the EHT?
• How are particles accelerated to such high energies around black holes??
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Knot A
Knot D
Left: X-ray jet from M87 (Chandra). Right: M87 shadow (EHT)
A Match Made in Orbit
• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Precise imaging, spectroscopy: jet structure
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Knot A
Knot D
Credit: NASA/Caltech/JPL
• NuSTAR
• Higher-Energy X-rays = better constraints on particle acceleration
Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan
NuSTAR & Chandra
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Knot A
Knot D
Credit:X-ray: NASA/ CXC/MIT/H. Marshall et al.Radio: F. Zhou, F.Owen (NRAO), J.Biretta (STScI)Optical: NASA/ STScI/UMBC/E. Perlman et al.
• Work together: use Chandra to constrain the different pieces of the jet, NuSTAR to measure high-energy data
Wong et al. 2017
The X-ray Spectrum
• Lots of pieces in the spectrum (brightness vs energy)
• Green: hot cluster gas from Chandra
• Orange, pink, turquoise: jet structure from Chandra
• Blue, black: NuSTAR spectrum
• NuSTAR: sum of all pieces
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Credit:X-ray: NASA/ CXC/MIT/H. Marshall et al.Radio: F. Zhou, F.Owen (NRAO), J.Biretta (STScI)Optical: NASA/ STScI/UMBC/E. Perlman et al.
X-ray spectrum of M87 (Neilsen et al. in prep)
Summary
• X-rays tell us about some of the most energetic processes around BH
• EHT: very exciting opportunity to study the immediate vicinity of a black hole
• X-rays: study particle accel. at the same time, connect the two??!
• New window onto black holes
• Milky Way Galaxy BH: Sgr A* next?
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Knot A
Knot D
Left: X-ray jet from M87 (Chandra). Right: M87 shadow (EHT)
Backup: Black Hole Spin
• EHT uses detailed simulations of matter falling onto black holes to understand image
• One neat result: the black hole is spinning
• We are looking at its “south pole” (EHT 2019e)
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EHT constraints on the spin of the black hole and jet direction
• Chandra X-ray Observatory: Black hole primer
Additional Resources
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http://chandra.si.edu/blackhole/
Includes: - Illustrations:
http://chandra.si.edu/resources/illustrations/blackholes.html- Animations:
http://chandra.si.edu/resources/animations/blackholes.html- Chandra PodCasts on black holes
• Chandra X-ray Observatory: Black hole Infographic
Additional Resources
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http://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/graphics/resources/illustrations/bh_infograph.pdf
Answers common questions about black holes with engaging visuals.
• Fermi Telescope Black Hole Resource Area
Additional Resources
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http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/blackholes/index.php
Includes: - PBS Nova special- Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Planetarium Show: "Black Holes: The Other Side Of Infinity"- Black Holes Educator Workshop: From Here
to Infinity- Black hole activities for the classroom- Cool black hole games for all ages
• Fermi Telescope Active Galaxy Education Unit
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http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/agn.php
• Dr. Katie Bouman speaking at Caltech
Additional Resources
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=UGL_OL3OrCE
• How to understand the image of a black hole
Additional Resources
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=zUyH3XhpLTo
• Falling into different kinds of black holes
Additional Resources
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https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html
Videos from the perspective of someone falling into a black hole
Explores effects of different black hole properties on view of the universe and the passage of time
Explains different regions around the black hole
• MicroObservatory
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https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/index.html
Make your own images of M87 (when it’s above the horizon!)
• MicroObservatory Astrophoto Challenge
Additional Resources
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https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/astrophoto/index.html
June 1:- M51 (Whirlpool Galaxy)
Make your own image from NASA data
Make your own image from MicroObservatory data
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