"Consistent Appearance: Latest Findings on M87* Black Hole"

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has released new images of M87* from observations taken in April 2018, revealing a familiar, bright ring of emission of the same size as in 2017. The new image, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, validates our understanding of black holes and general relativity, showing a dark central shadow and gravitational lensing effects. Key contributions to the imaging team were made by researchers at Caltech, including Professor Katie L. Bouman and former Ph.D. student Nitika Yadlapalli Yurk. The process of imaging M87* with the EHT involves converting radio wave data into images and testing algorithms with synthetic data. The new image shows a slight shift in the brightest portion of the glowing ring, likely due to the turbulent flow of matter around the black hole, but remains consistent with the previous image, demonstrating reproducibility with independent data.