24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
... between them putting together data to produce the image. The data was collected from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – a huge virtual telescope which links together existing facilities such as the Atacama Large millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA...
18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... black hole might be crucial for guiding our interpretation of current and future telescope observations of black holes, such as the ones by the Event Horizon Telescope,” Asenjo said. Speaking of Comisso and Asenjo work, Vyacheslav Lukin, a program...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
... picture, which represents 'a huge breakthrough for humanity', has been made possible by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT); an Earth-sized virtual telescope made up of eight radio observatories that spreads across the globe. It is the culmination...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
Observations are now underway by the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to take a never-seen-before image of the event horizon surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy – Sagittarius A*. These...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... and cost compared to all previous lunar-surface telescope mission concepts, says Bandyopadhyay. If the concept ever... power; for example VBLI observations were used by the Event Horizon Telescope last year to make the first ever photograph of a...
