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This artist’s impression shows the locations of multiple radio observatories across the planet, which participated in a pilot experiment conducted by the EHT Collaboration that obtained the highest-resolution observations from the ground. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

EHT Makes Highest-Resolution Black Hole Detections Yet from Earth

Aug 27, 2024 by News Staff

Astrophysicists with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration have conducted test observations achieving the highest resolution ever obtained from...

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released new images of M87* from observations taken in April 2018, one year after the first observations in April 2017. The new observations reveal a familiar, bright ring of emission, the same size as as first observed. The brightest part of the ring has shifted by about 30º, to a 5 o’clock position, relative to the 2017 image. Image credit: EHT Collaboration.

New Observations of Messier 87’s Black Hole Support Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

Jan 23, 2024 by News Staff

In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration reported the first-ever event-horizon-scale images of a black hole, resolving the central...