2016

"Get ready for your close-up, black holes: The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which will take some of the best images of black holes ever captured by humans, is ramping up its worldwide network of telescopes." " Worldwide Telescope Network Will Take Best...

"A network of nine radio telescopes, dotted around the globe, is set to take the first ever picture of a black hole's event horizon in 2017. The project, called the Event Horizon Telescope, has completed most of its technical preparations as well as...

"More than 26,000 light years away, deep within the heart of our galaxy, lies Sagittarius A* - four millions Suns' worth of unseen mass concentrated into an area just nine times the size. Sheperd Doeleman, assistant director of the MIT Haystack...

"Around the world, observatories gaze at the sky. But what if you could combine these to make a single high-resolution image – and examine the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy while you're at it? This is...