The Wobbling Shadow of the M87* Black Hole

M87* is a supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. You may already know it from the first image of a black hole, published by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in 2019 []. This animation presents about three years in the life of M87*, as predicted by numerical simulations. It shows the expected appearance and dynamics of the supermassive black hole as observed with