M87* observations catch the black hole's turbulent accretion flow

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study marks a significant step toward multi-year analysis at horizon scales, in order to investigate the black hole's turbulent accretion flow. It utilizes a vastly improved set of simulations that is a factor of three larger than previous ones. The results include major contributions from the MPIfR in Bonn, Germany.