The last image was a “mistake,” they say.

Sorta Twinning

A new image of a black hole in the center of a distant galaxy just dropped, but it’s making researchers worried that the first image of the same one wasn’t quite right.

It took researchers in Japan three years to produce an image of M87*, the black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. New Scientist reported this week that the group used the same data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a collection of eight radio telescopes that act as one, to produce a new version of the iconic black hole image released in 2019.

Like the original team, they used an algorithm to fill in the blanks and compile the vast heap