Astrophysics Lectures - The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging and Time Resolving a Black Hole

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Black Hole (Celestial Object Category) Radio Astronomy (Field Study) Interferometry

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Shep Doeleman (MIT / CfA) Shep Doeleman (MIT / CfA) Shep Doeleman (MIT / CfA) Astronomers from around the world are collaborating to make a direct image of the event horizon of a black hole. This worldwide effort. Next month, researchers will link telescopes around the world in an attempt to image the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Learn more: To take a photo of a black hole, you'd need a telescope the size of a planet. That's not really feasible, but Katie Bouman and her team came up with an alternative solution involving complex.