Space scientists baffled by supermassive black hole’s cosmic flip

By Dean Murray

Space scientists are puzzled after discovering a black hole behaving in an unexpected way.

New images have revealed the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 flipping its gravitational field.

The data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration shows that while the bright, ring-shaped shadow of the black hole remained steady, the magnetic fields threading the surrounding plasma dramatically changed direction, reversing their spiral.

This discovery challenges existing theoretical models and highlights a turbulent, evolving environment at the black hole’s edge, where magnetic forces govern how matter falls in and jets of energy are launched outwards.

These new observations, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics , are providing fresh insigh