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The EHT is closer than ever to its goal, as the project continues to increase its resolving power and sensitivity as more telescopes join the system. Another important aspect of this project exists, however: the ability to analyze and characterize the...

At World Science Festival in New York, Andrea Ghez of UCLA, Vicky Kalogera of Northwestern University, and Shep Doeleman and Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University, shed new light on the current state of the art and the future of black hole research in a panel...

The Event Horizon Telescope needs your help! We have put together a proposal for a panel to be featured at the 2019 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, March 8-17 2019. Over 5,000 panels have been submitted to SXSW, but fewer than 1,000...

Find about Freek's experience exploring the unknown from Radboud University's independent magazine Vox.

To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to extreme places themselves. Taking advantage of the excellent atmospheric conditions in Greenland, the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) of Academia Sinica...

Results based on data obtained with the 4-station Event Horizon Telescope back in 2013 were published in a peer-reviewed journal, showing tantalizing, but not yet conclusive, structure in Sgr A* on the scale of about 3 Schwarzschild radii of the black...

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), the technique used by the EHT to create a virtual Earth-sized dish, has been called the ‘ultimate in delayed gratification’ among astronomers. Radio waves from the edge of a distant supermassive black hole are...

Theoretical astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt, and members of the EHT collaboration, shed new light on this question by computing simulated images of hot gas feeding non-Einsteinian black holes. While at present it is hard to tell apart a...

In a new Physics Today article, EHT members and professors at the University of Arizona, Feryal Özel and Dimitrios Psaltis, discuss the nature of black holes and their appearance in a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment, such as the Event...

This week we mark 50 years since the first transatlantic very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment. In April 1968, a historic event took place involving MIT Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts, and its counterpart at Onsala Space...

Michael Kramer, director en el Instituto Max Planck de Radioastronomía, Bonn, Alemania, dictó una conferencia en en la fundación BBVA en Madrid, España. En la entrevista para El País, Kramer explica los últimos avances sobre agujeros negros supermasivos...