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National Science Foundation (NSF) announces new Diamond Achievement Award, to be presented to the EHT Collaboration

May 17, 2019

NSF Announces the Diamond Achievement Award for the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Telescopes in space for even sharper images of black holes: a new study led by Radboud University researchers

May 15, 2019

Simulations of imaging the event horizon of Sagittarius A* from space, Roelofs et al. (2019)

Shep Doeleman Talks at the TED2019 Conference: Inside the Black Hole Image That Made History

May 01, 2019

Shep Doeleman at TED Conference Vancouver 2019

10 Deep Lessons From Our First Image Of A Black Hole's Event Horizon, by Ethan Siegel for Forbes

April 15, 2019

Tracing photons as they swirl around a black hole, forming a black hole shadow. Credit: Nicole Fuller for the NSF

Scientific American: The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the universe’s most mysterious objects

April 12, 2019

Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image, reports Guardian

April 12, 2019

Announcement of first EHT results in a press conference in Washington DC, USA, April 10, 2019.

Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 11 2019: First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole

April 11, 2019

First-ever Image of a Black Hole Published by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

April 10, 2019

The official press release from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration can be found here. Latest information is summarized on this page.

Media Advisory: First Results from the Event Horizon Telescope to be Presented on April 10th

April 02, 2019

On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration will present its first results in multiple simultaneous press conferences around the world, and many satellite events organized by its stakeholder and affiliated institutions. Press...

ScienceNews: What might we learn from the first closeup image of a black hole?

March 30, 2019

EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole

March 29, 2019

SXSW 2019 Panel -- Event Horizon Telescope: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole Predicted almost a century ago by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, black holes not only exist, but actually power some of the most extreme phenomena in the...

Global Web Tour of EHT Observatories

March 25, 2019

The Event Horizon Telescope is a global network of synchronized radio observatories that work in unison to observe radio sources associated with black holes with angular resolution comparable to their event horizons. The required extreme resolving power...