2016

Wired: "Distant black hole may disprove Einstein's theory of relativity"

December 24, 2016

"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 Observatory, believes this mysterious entity is a supermassive black hole - and he's building a telescope the size of the Earth to prove it."

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Center of the Milky Way

Cosmos Magazine: "How an Earth-sized telescope will 'see' a supermassive black hole"

November 30, 2016

"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 the idea behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a virtual telescope so big it spans continents and hemispheres thanks to an imaging technique called interferometry."

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Space.com: "Worldwide Telescope Network Will Take Best-Ever Images of Black Holes"

January 8, 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-Ever Images of Black Holes" by Calla Cofield for Space.com

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BBC News: "Event horizon snapshot due in 2017"

January 8, 2016

"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 extensive theoretical calculations.

It will focus on Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the Milky Way's centre.

Speaking at an astronomy conference in Florida, EHT team member Feryal Ozel said all the elements were in place."

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