{"id":219207,"date":"2025-08-01T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/simulations-reveal-surprising-electron-temperatures-near-m87-black-holes-event-horizon"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:28:00","slug":"simulations-reveal-surprising-electron-temperatures-near-m87-black-holes-event-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/simulations-reveal-surprising-electron-temperatures-near-m87-black-holes-event-horizon","title":{"rendered":"Simulations reveal surprising electron temperatures near M87 black hole\u2019s event horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulations-reveal-surprising-electron-temperatures-near-m87-black-holes-event-horizon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 \u201455 million light years from Earth. Supercomputer simulations are now helping scientists sharpen their understanding about the environment beyond a black hole\u2019s \u2018shadow,\u2019 material just outside its event horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 \u201455 million light years from Earth. Supercomputer simulations are now helping scientists sharpen their understanding about the environment beyond a black hole\u2019s \u2018shadow,\u2019 material just outside its event [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}