Einstein’s theory of relativity has been verified

astrophysicist Stanford UniversityAnd Dan Wilkins, he found a pattern by looking at an X-ray thrown into the universe by a giant black hole It is located in the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away. It’s about extension First direct observation of light behind a black hole, something that was already predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, but this has not yet been confirmed.

He is doing his studies About this object, Wilkins, a research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, Particles and Cosmology at Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, realized that there are a number of An unexpected light reverberates in the black hole’s halo, which were smaller, arrived later and were of different colors than those usually taped in the foreground, emanating from the hot matter swirling around them.

After determining the origin of these emissions, he concluded that these flashes They come from behind, where the hole distorted space, bending light and twisting magnetic fields around it.

It was already a theory, but they eventually managed to notice

This is not the first time A black hole has been discovered Light distortion, but if it First direct note for this phenomenon.

“Fifty years ago, when astrophysicists started speculating about how a magnetic field would behave near a black hole, they had no idea that we might one day have the technologies to directly observe it and see Einstein’s general theory of relativity in action,” he said. Roger Blandford, co-author of the paper, Luke Blossom Professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Physics at Stanford University, and Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC.

Originally, they were looking to get more information from The Crown, A little studied portion of black holes Cone shape emits X-ray light and can be used to map and characterize this celestial body.

In addition, it is expected in the future that we will better understand these crowns, but it will require further studies using European Space Agency Observatory, Athens (Advanced High Energy Astrophysics Telescope), in which a detector capable of obtaining high-resolution images is being developed, through which it is possible to obtain clearer data to understand this phenomenon.