"Once assembled, the EHT — with ALMA as the largest and most sensitive site — will form an Earth-sized telescope with the magnifying power required to see details at the edge of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way." News release...
"At 1.3mm wavelength, the LMT will join other telescopes worldwide in the Event Horizon Telescope array to image the event horizons of SgrA* and the supermassive black hole at the center of the nearby elliptical galaxy M87." By Shep Doeleman for National...
"An international team of US and Mexican scientists has completed a successful Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) test between the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) and several Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) stations" By Shep...
"Within a few years scientists may have the first-ever picture of the environment around a black hole, and could even spot the theorized 'shadow' of a black hole itself." Posted by Discovery News for Seeker
"Black holes are essentially invisible, but astronomers are developing technology to image the immediate surroundings of these enigmas like never before. Within a few years, experts say, scientists may have the first-ever picture of the environment around...
Paper summary of " Jet Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in M87" by Zachary Slepian for Astrobites
"For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole." By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office. MIT Press Release M87 manuscript published in Science
"Scientists are trying to get the first direct look at the black hole at the center of our galaxy. How close will they come to seeing the unseeable?" By Seth Fletcher for Popular Science
"Telescopes in Chile, Hawaii, and Arizona reach sharpness two million times finer than human vision" Press release by ESO
Interview by Pedro Saizer for Argentinian magazine Página/12. Cover page here.
"A planet-wide telescope sets its sights on the well-kept secrets of black holes." by Camille M. Carlisle for Sky and Telescope
"Images of a black hole could test general relativity as well as prove they exist, says astronomer Dan Marrone." Interview with Dan Marrone by Jon White for New Scientist
