On March 14th, the world lost Stephen Hawking, a luminary who inspired many of the scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope project. Stephen’s work on black holes helped bring them center stage in our efforts to understand the universe. He was...
On futurism.com, author Kristin Houser writes about being closer than ever before to finally capturing the first image of a black hole with the EHT -- hopefully -- in the near future.
The winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the biggest yearly meeting of astronomers and astrophysicists in North America. More than 3000 students and professionals meet to present and discuss the latest progress on many interesting...
In his recent Forbes article, astronomer and author Ethan Siegel covered many basics of the Event Horizon Telescope mission and expectations for what we may soon be "seeing" based on the observations taken in 2017.
The delivery of disks full of VLBI data for Event Horizon Telescope observations in April 2017 from the South Pole Telescope to the MIT Haystack Observatory made it to the list of the most interesting events in science at the end of 2017: Nature
A new article by Jamie Seidel of news.com.au -- Radio telescopes combine data to capture first-ever image of a supermassive black hole -- starts with the recent status update from the EHT, "The data is in. The numbers are being crunched." It then proceeds...
Over the past two months, the EHT team has been working hard on processing a preliminary data set that does not yet include any data from the South Pole station. Using this data set, the team has refined the data processing pipelines that will be used to...
Members of the EHT collaboration convened at the Black Hole Initiative in Cambridge, MA, USA, between October 10 and 13 to work together on improving and testing algorithms employed in production of images from data obtained with very long baseline...
Most of the data collected in April 2017 EHT global campaign have now been through a first stage of processing at the MIT Haystack Observatory (Cambridge, MA, USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR; Bonn, Germany). Computing clusters...
The EHT director Shep Doelman published a short article in the Mission Control section of the latest Nature Astronomy issue, explaining the EHT experiment, its history and its future.
On NPR's 13.7 blog, Adam Frank, an astrophysics professor and an author, and Charles Gammie, a member of the EHT collaboration, discuss how close we are to obtaining images of black holes: Are We About To See A Black Hole?
