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Why was M87 targeted for the Event Horizon Telescope instead of Sagittarius A*?
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The first image of a black hole has been released today, April 10th, 2019. The team targeted the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.
Why didn't the team target Sagittarius A* at the center of our own galaxy? Intuitively, it would seem to be a better target as it is closer to us.
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The first image of a black hole has been released today, April 10th, 2019. The team targeted the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.
Why didn't the team target Sagittarius A* at the center of our own galaxy? Intuitively, it would seem to be a better target as it is closer to us.
black-holes astronomy event-horizon
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Related question on Astronomy Stack Exchange: astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/30313/2153.
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The first image of a black hole has been released today, April 10th, 2019. The team targeted the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.
Why didn't the team target Sagittarius A* at the center of our own galaxy? Intuitively, it would seem to be a better target as it is closer to us.
black-holes astronomy event-horizon
edited 14 hours ago
Peter Mortensen
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asked yesterday
MaxterMaxter
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The first image of a black hole has been released today, April 10th, 2019. The team targeted the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy.
Why didn't the team target Sagittarius A* at the center of our own galaxy? Intuitively, it would seem to be a better target as it is closer to us.
black-holes astronomy event-horizon
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Of course they targeted Sgr A* as well.
I think though that this is a more difficult target to get good images of.
The black hole is about 1500 times less massive than in M87, but is about 2000 times closer. So the angular scale of the event horizons should be similar. However Sgr A* is a fairly dormant black hole and may not be illuminated so well, and there is more scattering material between us and it than in M87.
A bigger problem may be variability timescales$^{dagger}$. The black hole in M87 is light days across, so images can be combined across several days of observing. Sgr A* is light minutes across, so rapid variability could be a problem.
The penultimate paragraph of the initial Event Horizon Telescope paper says:
Another primary EHT source, Sgr A*, has a precisely measured mass three orders of magnitude smaller than that of M87*, with dynamical timescales of minutes instead of days. Observing the shadow of Sgr A* will require accounting for this variability and mitigation of scattering effects caused by the interstellar medium
$dagger$ The accretion flow into a black hole is turbulent and variable. However, the shortest timescale upon which significant changes can take place across the source is the timescale for light (the fastest possible means of communication) to travel across or around it. Because the material close to the black hole is moving relativistically, we do expect things to vary on these kinds of timescales. The photon sphere of a black hole is approximately $6GM/c^2$ across, meaning a shortest timescale of variability is about $6GM/c^3$. In more obvious units:
$$ tau sim 30 left(frac{M}{10^6 M_{odot}}right) {rm seconds}.$$
i.e. We might expect variability in the image on timescales of 30 seconds multiplied by the black hole mass in units of millions of solar masses. This is 2 minutes for Sgr A* and a much longer 2.25 days for the M87 black hole.
answered yesterday
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I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
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– World Outsider
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I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
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– Allure
yesterday
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@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
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– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
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So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
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– David Conrad
11 hours ago
1
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@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
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Of course they targeted Sgr A* as well.
I think though that this is a more difficult target to get good images of.
The black hole is about 1500 times less massive than in M87, but is about 2000 times closer. So the angular scale of the event horizons should be similar. However Sgr A* is a fairly dormant black hole and may not be illuminated so well, and there is more scattering material between us and it than in M87.
A bigger problem may be variability timescales$^{dagger}$. The black hole in M87 is light days across, so images can be combined across several days of observing. Sgr A* is light minutes across, so rapid variability could be a problem.
The penultimate paragraph of the initial Event Horizon Telescope paper says:
Another primary EHT source, Sgr A*, has a precisely measured mass three orders of magnitude smaller than that of M87*, with dynamical timescales of minutes instead of days. Observing the shadow of Sgr A* will require accounting for this variability and mitigation of scattering effects caused by the interstellar medium
$dagger$ The accretion flow into a black hole is turbulent and variable. However, the shortest timescale upon which significant changes can take place across the source is the timescale for light (the fastest possible means of communication) to travel across or around it. Because the material close to the black hole is moving relativistically, we do expect things to vary on these kinds of timescales. The photon sphere of a black hole is approximately $6GM/c^2$ across, meaning a shortest timescale of variability is about $6GM/c^3$. In more obvious units:
$$ tau sim 30 left(frac{M}{10^6 M_{odot}}right) {rm seconds}.$$
i.e. We might expect variability in the image on timescales of 30 seconds multiplied by the black hole mass in units of millions of solar masses. This is 2 minutes for Sgr A* and a much longer 2.25 days for the M87 black hole.
answered yesterday
Rob JeffriesRob Jeffries
71k7150248
$endgroup$
4
$begingroup$
I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
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– World Outsider
yesterday
1
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I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
$endgroup$
– Allure
yesterday
4
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@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
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– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
2
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So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
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– David Conrad
11 hours ago
1
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@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
8 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
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Of course they targeted Sgr A* as well.
I think though that this is a more difficult target to get good images of.
The black hole is about 1500 times less massive than in M87, but is about 2000 times closer. So the angular scale of the event horizons should be similar. However Sgr A* is a fairly dormant black hole and may not be illuminated so well, and there is more scattering material between us and it than in M87.
A bigger problem may be variability timescales$^{dagger}$. The black hole in M87 is light days across, so images can be combined across several days of observing. Sgr A* is light minutes across, so rapid variability could be a problem.
The penultimate paragraph of the initial Event Horizon Telescope paper says:
Another primary EHT source, Sgr A*, has a precisely measured mass three orders of magnitude smaller than that of M87*, with dynamical timescales of minutes instead of days. Observing the shadow of Sgr A* will require accounting for this variability and mitigation of scattering effects caused by the interstellar medium
$dagger$ The accretion flow into a black hole is turbulent and variable. However, the shortest timescale upon which significant changes can take place across the source is the timescale for light (the fastest possible means of communication) to travel across or around it. Because the material close to the black hole is moving relativistically, we do expect things to vary on these kinds of timescales. The photon sphere of a black hole is approximately $6GM/c^2$ across, meaning a shortest timescale of variability is about $6GM/c^3$. In more obvious units:
$$ tau sim 30 left(frac{M}{10^6 M_{odot}}right) {rm seconds}.$$
i.e. We might expect variability in the image on timescales of 30 seconds multiplied by the black hole mass in units of millions of solar masses. This is 2 minutes for Sgr A* and a much longer 2.25 days for the M87 black hole.
answered yesterday
Rob JeffriesRob Jeffries
71k7150248
$endgroup$
4
$begingroup$
I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
$endgroup$
– World Outsider
yesterday
1
$begingroup$
I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
$endgroup$
– Allure
yesterday
4
$begingroup$
@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
2
$begingroup$
So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
$endgroup$
– David Conrad
11 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
8 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
$begingroup$
Of course they targeted Sgr A* as well.
I think though that this is a more difficult target to get good images of.
The black hole is about 1500 times less massive than in M87, but is about 2000 times closer. So the angular scale of the event horizons should be similar. However Sgr A* is a fairly dormant black hole and may not be illuminated so well, and there is more scattering material between us and it than in M87.
A bigger problem may be variability timescales$^{dagger}$. The black hole in M87 is light days across, so images can be combined across several days of observing. Sgr A* is light minutes across, so rapid variability could be a problem.
The penultimate paragraph of the initial Event Horizon Telescope paper says:
Another primary EHT source, Sgr A*, has a precisely measured mass three orders of magnitude smaller than that of M87*, with dynamical timescales of minutes instead of days. Observing the shadow of Sgr A* will require accounting for this variability and mitigation of scattering effects caused by the interstellar medium
$dagger$ The accretion flow into a black hole is turbulent and variable. However, the shortest timescale upon which significant changes can take place across the source is the timescale for light (the fastest possible means of communication) to travel across or around it. Because the material close to the black hole is moving relativistically, we do expect things to vary on these kinds of timescales. The photon sphere of a black hole is approximately $6GM/c^2$ across, meaning a shortest timescale of variability is about $6GM/c^3$. In more obvious units:
$$ tau sim 30 left(frac{M}{10^6 M_{odot}}right) {rm seconds}.$$
i.e. We might expect variability in the image on timescales of 30 seconds multiplied by the black hole mass in units of millions of solar masses. This is 2 minutes for Sgr A* and a much longer 2.25 days for the M87 black hole.
answered yesterday
Rob JeffriesRob Jeffries
71k7150248
$endgroup$
Of course they targeted Sgr A* as well.
I think though that this is a more difficult target to get good images of.
The black hole is about 1500 times less massive than in M87, but is about 2000 times closer. So the angular scale of the event horizons should be similar. However Sgr A* is a fairly dormant black hole and may not be illuminated so well, and there is more scattering material between us and it than in M87.
A bigger problem may be variability timescales$^{dagger}$. The black hole in M87 is light days across, so images can be combined across several days of observing. Sgr A* is light minutes across, so rapid variability could be a problem.
The penultimate paragraph of the initial Event Horizon Telescope paper says:
Another primary EHT source, Sgr A*, has a precisely measured mass three orders of magnitude smaller than that of M87*, with dynamical timescales of minutes instead of days. Observing the shadow of Sgr A* will require accounting for this variability and mitigation of scattering effects caused by the interstellar medium
$dagger$ The accretion flow into a black hole is turbulent and variable. However, the shortest timescale upon which significant changes can take place across the source is the timescale for light (the fastest possible means of communication) to travel across or around it. Because the material close to the black hole is moving relativistically, we do expect things to vary on these kinds of timescales. The photon sphere of a black hole is approximately $6GM/c^2$ across, meaning a shortest timescale of variability is about $6GM/c^3$. In more obvious units:
$$ tau sim 30 left(frac{M}{10^6 M_{odot}}right) {rm seconds}.$$
i.e. We might expect variability in the image on timescales of 30 seconds multiplied by the black hole mass in units of millions of solar masses. This is 2 minutes for Sgr A* and a much longer 2.25 days for the M87 black hole.
answered yesterday
Rob JeffriesRob Jeffries
71k7150248
edited 4 hours ago
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answered yesterday
Rob JeffriesRob Jeffries
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I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
$endgroup$
– World Outsider
yesterday
1
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I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
$endgroup$
– Allure
yesterday
4
$begingroup$
@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
2
$begingroup$
So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
$endgroup$
– David Conrad
11 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
8 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
4
$begingroup$
I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
$endgroup$
– World Outsider
yesterday
1
$begingroup$
I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
$endgroup$
– Allure
yesterday
4
$begingroup$
@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
2
$begingroup$
So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
$endgroup$
– David Conrad
11 hours ago
1
$begingroup$
@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
8 hours ago
4
4
$begingroup$
I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
$endgroup$
– World Outsider
yesterday
$begingroup$
I was going to protest this answer, but now just have a catch to add. In some places (looking at you, Veritasium) a simulated image of SgrA* is easy to mistake as a genuine photo. Now I understand why SgrA* isn't even in the press release. The circulating SgrA* image is just a simulation. See source material and comments section: youtu.be/VnsZj9RvhFU
$endgroup$
– World Outsider
yesterday
1
1
$begingroup$
I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
$endgroup$
– Allure
yesterday
$begingroup$
I'd intuitively think that dust in the disk of our galaxy plays a part by obscuring the innermost regions.
$endgroup$
– Allure
yesterday
4
4
$begingroup$
@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
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@Allure The centre isn't obscured at 1.3mm wavelengths.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
21 hours ago
2
2
$begingroup$
So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
$endgroup$
– David Conrad
11 hours ago
$begingroup$
So why not Andromeda, or any closer galaxy? Size of central black hole? Orientation of galaxy (edge-on, face-on, or in between)?
$endgroup$
– David Conrad
11 hours ago
1
1
$begingroup$
@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
8 hours ago
$begingroup$
@DavidConrad You will find another question about that somewhere. Yes, the angular size of the Andromeda black hole would be a bit smaller.
$endgroup$
– Rob Jeffries
8 hours ago
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