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ESO outreach blog discusses "Challenges in Obtaining an Image of a Supermassive Black Hole"

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In a recent blog post within the series entitled "Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole", the ESO outreach team explains some technological challenges that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration faces in pursuit of high-resolution images of black...

Scientific American: Dark Star Diaries

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Scientific American Senior Editor Seth Fletcher's staff blog about the EHT and other black hole science topics.

NPR: "Are we about to see a black hole?"

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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?

Flying past a black hole in a simulator: Jordy Davelaar and colleagues observe supermassive black holes in virtual reality

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At the centre of our own galaxy there is a black hole, called Sagittarius A*. In anticipation of the first actual photograph of a black hole, an international project that also involves astronomers of Radboud University, Jordy Davelaar and colleagues have...

2021 Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award Presented to EHT

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration is pleased to have been granted by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) the 2021 Group Achievement Award (A). The EHT is a global network of synchronised radio observatories that work in unison to observe...

2021 Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences Presented to Shep Doeleman and Heino Falcke

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Recognizing their vision and leadership within the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) awards Shep Doeleman and Heino Falcke the Henry Draper Medal. The 300+ members of the collaboration are honored and proud of this...

Global Web Tour of EHT Observatories

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The Event Horizon Telescope is a global network of synchronized radio observatories that work in unison to observe radio sources associated with black holes with angular resolution comparable to their event horizons. The required extreme resolving power...

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Huib van Langevelde named Director of the Event Horizon Telescope Project

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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...

First-ever Image of a Black Hole Published by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

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The official press release from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration can be found here. Latest information is summarized on this page.

Photos from the EHT Imaging Workshop Posted

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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...

Award-Winning First Image of the Supermassive Black Hole in M87

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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...