"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"Scientists believe they are on the verge of obtaining the first ever picture of a black hole. They have linked radio antennas all over the Earth into a network they hope will finally give them the necessary resolving power. Their target is the super...
It is true that a black hole itself does not emit light. However, the EHT observes the nearby surroundings of a black hole. The gas that surrounds the observational targets of the EHT does in fact radiate, so by observing this region the EHT may observe...
It is predicted that many black holes of roughly stellar mass exist throughout any galaxy. They are remnants of massive stars that have exploaded as supernovae. We study supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87 because their apparent sizes are much larger...
"...[A]n ambitious radio astronomy project now aims at taking the first snapshot of an actual black hole. In other words, a real-life picture of Interstellar’s black hole Gargantua, if a highly pixelated one." By Davide Castelvecchi for Nature
"Dubbed the Event Horizon Telescope, it is actually a network of radio dishes spread across the globe. Together they exemplify the adage that the sum is greater than the parts." By Ivan Semuniuk for The Globe and Mail
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?
