EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole (SXSW 2019 Panel) Recording of a series of 4 presentations and a Question & Answer session from the panel named “EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole” at the 2019 SXSW festival that took place on March 8–17, 2019 in Austin, Texas, USA. Speakers. […]
Month: March 2019
4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole
Event Horizon Telescope data are giving scientists an image of the Milky Way’s behemoth BY LISA GROSSMAN 09:58AM, MARCH 29, 2019 We’re about to see the first close-up of a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of eight radio observatories spanning the globe, has set its sights on a pair of behemoths: Sagittarius A*, […]
Leaders Driving Change at SXSW part 2 “Photographing a Black Hole” Podcast with Dimitrios Psaltis
By Tyler KernMarch 14, 2019 PHOTOGRAPHING A BLACK HOLE Black holes do not let light escape, according to University of Arizona professor Dimitrios Psaltis, so how does a camera get a photo of one? This is the challenge for Psaltis and the team at Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a project designed to create an Earth-sized telescope network […]