1. 北京时间今晚21点整,全世界的太空迷们翘首以盼,人类首张黑洞照片即将揭开神秘面纱。黑洞究竟长什么样?物理和天文学者眼里的黑洞和普通人看到的有什么不一样?高能“剧透”来了。
At 21 o'clock in Beijing time tonight, the world's space fans are looking forward to the first black hole photo of human beings will be unveiled. What does the black hole look like? What is the difference between the black hole in the eyes of physics and astronomers and what ordinary people see? High-energy "spoiler" is coming.
2. 黑洞的超强引力能够将周围的气体撕扯到它自己身边,产生一个围绕黑洞旋转的气体盘,这就是吸积盘。黑洞有时候也会“打嗝”,一部分吸积气体会沿转动方向被抛射出去,形成喷流。吸积盘和喷流两种现象都因气体摩擦而产生了明亮的光与大量辐射,这就是我们在以往各种黑洞模拟中见到的一圈圈的光亮。
The super-gravity of the black hole can tear the surrounding gas around itself, creating a gas disk that rotates around the black hole. This is the accretion disk. Black holes sometimes "snap", and some of the accretion gas is ejected in the direction of rotation to form a jet. Both the accretion disk and the jet flow produce bright light and a large amount of radiation due to gas friction, which is the circle of light we saw in various black hole simulations in the past.
3. 耶鲁大学的天体物理学家普里亚瓦达⋅纳塔拉哈恩也表示:“能够如此近距离接触黑洞实在令人兴奋。”加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校研究黑洞的天体物理学家蒂莫西⋅布兰德则兴奋地说:“仅仅是能够看到它就会让人觉得太棒了。我们会在科学方面了解一些东西,而且随着时间推移知道得会越来越多。只看到这些图像都会觉得非常酷。”
Yale University's astrophysicist Priawada Natara Hahn also said: "It is exciting to be able to get close to the black hole so close." The physicist Timo, who studied black holes at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Xiqiao Brand said with excitement: "It is great to just see it. We will understand something in science and know more and more over time. Just look at it. It will be very cool to get to these images."