ESO outreach blog discusses "Challenges in Obtaining an Image of a Supermassive Black Hole"

Infographic showing the EHT sites around the world

This infographic details the locations of the participating telescopes of the Event Horizon Telescope and the Global mm-VLBI Array. Credit: O. Furtak, ESO

In a recent blog post within the series entitled "Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole", the ESO outreach team explains some technological challenges that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration faces in pursuit of high-resolution images of black holes using the technique of very long baseline interferometry: Challenges in Obtaining an Image of a Supermassive Black Hole