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BBC News: "Event Horizon Telescope ready to image black hole"

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"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...

National Geographic: "Astronomers May Finally Have the First Picture of a Black Hole"

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"After completing five nights of observations, today astronomers may finally have captured the first-ever image of the famous gravitational sinkhole known as a black hole. [...] As the final observing run ended at 11:22 a.m. ET, team member Vincent Fish...

Science: "This global telescope may finally see the event horizon of our galaxy's giant black hole"

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"This year, for the first time, the EHT will add dishes in Chile and Antarctica, sharpening its resolution and raising expectations. Astronomers now hope to see how the black holes whip the hot gas around them into accretion disks and spawn matter-spewing...

The Conversation "Astronomers to peer into a black hole for first time with new Event Horizon Telescope"

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"Ever since first mentioned by Jon Michell in a letter to the Royal Society in 1783, black holes have captured the imagination of scientists, writers, filmmakers and other artists. Perhaps part of the allure is that these enigmatic objects have never...

The Guardian: "Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way"

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"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...

Cosmos Magazine: "How an Earth-sized telescope will 'see' a supermassive black hole"

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"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...

The Atlantic: "Gazing Into the Abyss"

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"Soon ALMA will take on perhaps the most ambitious endeavor of its brief existence. Over 10 days in early April, it will join radio telescopes at five other sites spanning the globe, from Hawaii to the South Pole, in an attempt to capture the shadow of a...

Wired: "Distant black hole may disprove Einstein's theory of relativity"

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"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...