# Wobbling Shadow of the M87* Black Hole

Analysis of the Event Horizon Telescope observations from 2009-2017 reveals turbulent evolution of the M87* black hole image

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration delivered ...

# Something is Lurking in the Heart of Quasar 3C 279

First Event Horizon Telescope Images of a Black-Hole Powered Jet

One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted new information from the EHT data on the distant quasar 3C 279: they observed the finest detail ever seen in a jet produced by a supermassive black hole. New analyses, led by Jae-Young Kim from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, enabled the collaboration to trace the jet back to its launch point,...

Read more about Something is Lurking in the Heart of Quasar 3C 279

# EHT Observing Campaign 2020 Canceled Due to the COVID-19 Outbreak

The global array of telescopes connected into the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was due to start observations at the end of March 2020 in order to expand and enhance the first set of results published approximately one year ago, including the first-ever image of a black hole in the galaxy M87. Regrettably, several participating...

Read more about EHT Observing Campaign 2020 Canceled Due to the COVID-19 Outbreak

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the award of a $12.7M grant to architect and design a next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). The principal investigator of this program is the EHT Founding Director, Sheperd Doeleman at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The ngEHT will sharpen our focus on black holes, and let researchers move from still-imagery to real-time videos of space-time at the event horizon. The new award is aimed at solving the formidable technical and algorithmic challenges required to... Read more about Announcement of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Design Program # Global Effort to Make First Black Hole Image Wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics The Breakthrough Foundation has announced today that the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will receive the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, in recognition of their achievement of making the first image of a black hole in the galaxy Messier 87. The citation reads: “For the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes.” The$3 million prize will be split equally among all coauthors of the first six papers published by the EHT on April 10, 2019, which can be found...

Read more about Global Effort to Make First Black Hole Image Wins 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics