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Likely it is not about the mass, but about the arrangement of clumps of matter circling around the super massive black holes in the accretion disk. During the p
by nuccy 4y ago
Likely it is not about the mass, but about the arrangement of clumps of matter circling around the super massive black holes in the accretion disk. During the presentation they speak about much shorter time-scales for Sgr A* in comparison with M87, saying that for Sgr A* they were "making the image while it was changing" [1]. Also see other variations of the image (many teams analyzed data independently) here [2].
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQLA6lo6R0&t=1930s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQLA6lo6R0&t=1930s
2. https://physicsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/First-SGR-A-results.jpg https://physicsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/First-SG... from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6429 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac6429