"The Milky Way’s great black hole is 25,000 light years distant, surrounded by dense clusters of stars, shrouded by interstellar dust and, like all other black holes, incapable of emitting light. Yet scientists believe they will soon be able to take a...
"Scientists believe they are on the verge of obtaining the first ever picture of a black hole. They have built an Earth-sized "virtual telescope" by linking a large array of radio receivers - from the South Pole, to Hawaii, to the Americas and Europe...
"Discovering the Milky Way’s black hole has helped cement the idea that the center of nearly every large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole. But despite mounting evidence for black holes, we still haven’t seen one directly. That may change very soon...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"A wide-ranging array of radio dishes trained on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has revealed a glimpse of the magnetic field close to the Milky Way’s dark heart. The results could help explain why black holes, although not...
"Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built 'a telescope as big as the world.'" Black Hole Hunters by Dennis Overbye for The New York Times
"Astronomers building a globe-spanning virtual telescope capable of photographing the "event horizon" of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way have extended their instrument to incorporate the South Pole Telescope (SPT), a 280-ton radio telescope...
"The new ALMA/APEX observation, which took place on January 13, was an essential proof-of-concept test for the planned Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which eventually will include a global network of millimeter-wavelength telescopes." News release by...
"Even though black holes are vital to our understanding of the universe, no one has ever seen one -- yet. To change this, a team of scientists in northern Chile, is using a network of telescopes around the globe to capture an image of a black hole for the...
