The Event Horizon Telescope is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferometry stations around Earth,
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EHT observations during its 2017 M87 multiwavelength campaign decomposed by instrument from lower (EHT/ALMA/SMA) to higher (VERITAS) frequency (Fermi-LAT in continuous survey mode) (dates also in Modified Julian days)
Soft X-ray image of Sagittarius A* (center) and two light echoes from a recent explosion (circled)
Image of M87* generated from data gathered by the Event Horizon Telescope
A black hole is an astronomical body so compact that its gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes gravitation as the c
Event Horizon Telescope
…resolution sufficient to observe objects the size of a supermassive black hole's event horizon. The project's observational targets include the two black holes with the largest angular diameter as observed from Earth: the black hole at the center of the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, and Sagittarius…
The first simulated image of a black hole, published by Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1979 and featuring the characteristic shadow, photon sphere, and lensed accretion disk. The disk is brighter on one side due to Doppler beaming.
Image by the Event Horizon Telescope of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87
Relativistic jets from the supermassive black hole in Centaurus A extend perpendicularly from the galaxy.