Albert Einstein predicted the existence of black holes over a century ago when he developed the theory of general relativity. Today, his predictions are being tested through work being done to take the first-ever images of nearby black holes using an earth-sized telescope array, the Event Horizon Telescope. The Event Horizon Telescope shared groundbreaking results from […]
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Arizona Celebrates with the World in Sharing the First Black Hole Image
Arizona members of the Event Horizon Telescope joined the National Science Foundation in revealing the first-ever image captured of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. Arizona’s contribution to the EHT collaboration includes over 25 faculty, post docs, graduate students, and telescope operators. UA News Full Story Arizona Republic Story Join […]
EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole (SXSW 2019 Panel)
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. […]
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*, […]