Videos

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From the EHT Youtube Channel

Zooming in to the Heart of Messier 87

This zoom video starts with a view of ALMA and zooms in on the heart of M87, showing successively more detailed observations and culminating in the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole’s shadow. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration. Music: Niklas Falcke

Animation zooming into M87 to show its accretion disk, ray-traced images and blurring due to instrument noise, demonstrating how the image obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope fit into a bigger picture. This version has explanatory text in English. Find the same animation in different languages at the following links: Chinese / https://youtu.be/LDg8HfdvGr0, German / https://youtu.be/FRhoUPtxU4k, Italian / https://youtu.be/oShBhveN17M, Japanese / https://youtu.be/Hne6wUbN6S0, Spanish / https://youtu.be/A4i3v5ZZYEk. Credits: Weih, Fromm, Younsi, Rezzolla (EHT Collaboration, BlackHoleCam)

TED: How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman

Rotating globe and snapshots of EHT telescopes observing M87 in April 2017

This video shows the global network of radio telescopes in the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array that performed groundbreaking observations in April 2017. With a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry they were combined into a large "virtual" telescope as large as the Earth. Credit: C. Fromm & L. Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt, BlackHoleCam, EHT Collaboration)

StarTalk: Why Should We Build The Event Horizon Telescope?

Perimeter Institue: The Event Horizon Telescope

New accordion Panel

This zoom video starts with a view of ALMA and zooms in on the heart of M87, showing successively more detailed observations and culminating in the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole’s shadow. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration. Music: Niklas Falcke

Animation zooming into M87 to show its accretion disk, ray-traced images and blurring due to instrument noise, demonstrating how the image obtained with the Event Horizon Telescope fit into a bigger picture. This version has explanatory text in English. Find the same animation in different languages at the following links: Chinese / https://youtu.be/LDg8HfdvGr0, German / https://youtu.be/FRhoUPtxU4k, Italian / https://youtu.be/oShBhveN17M, Japanese / https://youtu.be/Hne6wUbN6S0, Spanish / https://youtu.be/A4i3v5ZZYEk. Credits: Weih, Fromm, Younsi, Rezzolla (EHT Collaboration, BlackHoleCam)

About the EHT Array Sites

Katie Bouman: Hello from the LMT

William Montgomerie: Starlapse: The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

NRAO: ALMA Joins in the Hunt to Image the Edge of a Black Hole

Talks

CfA Colloquium: EHT: Imaging and Time-Resolving a Black Hole

CfA Observatory Nights: Photographing our Galaxy's Black Hole

HJAC: Imaging Supermassive Black Holes on Horizon Scales

 

PIRSA: Photons from the Edge: Revealing Black Holes with the EHT