#  Awards to the EHT 

 



Sort**Award Title****Granting Body****Announcement**2021 Group Award (A)

Royal Astronomical Society

8 Jan 2021, [announcement](/blog/2021-royal-astronomical-society-group-achievement-award-presented-eht)

Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award

National Space Club and Foundation (USA)

12 Mar 2020, [announcement](https://www.spaceclub.org/events/gmd-current.html)

AAS Bruno Rossi Prize 2020

American Astronomical Society (AAS; USA)

28 Jan 2020, [press release](https://head.aas.org/PR/2020_Rossi_prize)

Einstein Medal 2020

Albert Einstein Society (Switzerland)

27 Dec 2019, [announcement](https://www.einstein-bern.ch/en/einstein-society#eblink-69)

Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award 2019 (Physical Sciences)

Smithsonian Institution (USA)

19 Nov 2019, [article](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-team-captured-image-first-black-hole-180973495/)

2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Breakthrough Foundation (USA)

03 Nov 2019, [press release](https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54), [ceremony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOa0gRHfX20)

NSF Diamond Achievement Award

National Science Foundation (NSF; USA)

09 May 2019, [press release](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/announcements/050919.jsp)





Sort**Media Award****Outlet**[2019 Breakthrough of the Year](https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/finalists/#Darkness-made-visible)

Science Magazine

[Top Science Story of 2019](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/top-science-news-stories-2019-yir)

Science News

[\#1 Science Image of the Year 2019](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03839-z)

Nature Magazine

[\#2 Breakthrough of the Year 2019](https://physicsworld.com/a/physics-world-announces-its-breakthrough-of-the-year-finalists-for-2019/)

Physics World

[One of the Top Science Stories of 2019](https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/special-editions/2019/special-editions-volume-28-issue-5s/)

Scientific American

[\#1 in 16 Scientific Moments that Defined 2019](https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/g30078721/scientific-discoveries-2019/?slide=1)

Popular Mechanics

[\#1 in 15 Best Space Images of 2019](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/12/16/the-15-best-space-images-of-2019-from-a-black-hole-and-a-new-planet-to-two-dazzling-solar-eclipses/#767d02eb1f6e)

Forbes

[Among Most Mind-boggling Scientific Discoveries of 2019](https://www.businessinsider.de/international/biggest-scientific-discoveries-of-2019-2019-11)

Business Insider

[Among 15 Most Awe-inspiring Space Images of the Decade](https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/18/20995427/astronomy-pluto-black-hole-mars-curiosity-rosetta)

Vox

[\#1 in Top Space Stories of 2019](https://www.foxnews.com/science/black-holes-interstellar-mars-moon-space-stories-2019)

Fox News

[\#1 in Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2019](https://theweek.com/articles/885357/biggest-scientific-breakthroughs-2019)

The Week

[Among 19 Good Things that Happened in 2019](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/19-good-things-that-happened-in-2019/2019/12/17/719f50d6-2025-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html)

Washington Post