Videos

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)

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)

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)

Starlapse: The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope from William Montgomerie on Vimeo.

ALMA Joins in the Hunt to Image the Edge of a Black Hole from NRAO Outreach on Vimeo.