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...
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration had been awarded a number of prestigious awards and titles for its ground-breaking results in making the first-ever image of a black hole in the galaxy M87. The discovery was announced one year ago, and has been...
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...
First Event Horizon Telescope Images of a Black-Hole Powered Jet One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted new information...
Huib van Langevelde, a radio astronomer at the Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), has been named Project Director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a world-wide collaboration of more than 300 scientists from institutions around the world, known for...
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory partners with National Society of Black Physicists to launch annual research internship and recruitment opportunity Cambridge, MA (September 16, 2020)— The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and the National...
The Breakthrough Foundation has announced today that the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will receive the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, in recognition of their achievement of making the first image of a black hole in the galaxy...
SXSW 2019 Panel -- Event Horizon Telescope: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole Predicted almost a century ago by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, black holes not only exist, but actually power some of the most extreme phenomena in the...
On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration will present its first results in multiple simultaneous press conferences around the world, and many satellite events organized by its stakeholder and affiliated institutions. Press...
The global array of telescopes connected into the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was due to start observations at the end of March 2020 in order to expand and enhance the first set of results published approximately one year ago, including the first-ever...
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the award of a $12.7M grant to architect and design a next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). The principal investigator of this program is the EHT Founding Director, Sheperd...
The official press release from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration can be found here. Latest information is summarized on this page.
