Tag: Event Horizon Telescope

  • Science & Tech

    After capturing image of black hole, what’s next?

    New Center for Astrophysics mission aims for closer look at photon rings and insight into nature of space and time.

    4–6 minutes
    Telescope and black hole illustration.
  • Science & Tech

    First image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way

    Pioneering Harvard-led global collaborative unveils latest portrait, bolstering understanding of relativity, gravity.

    7–11 minutes
    First image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
  • Campus & Community

    Black hole project nets Breakthrough Prize

    The nearly 350 astronomers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates who worked for more than a decade to capture the first-ever image of a black hole have been named the recipients of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

    4–6 minutes
    Shep Doeleman
  • Science & Tech

    ‘Seeing the unseeable’

    A years-long effort by dozens of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

    7–11 minutes
    In the first picture of a black hole, it is outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon.
  • Science & Tech

    A black hole, revealed

    Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”

    4–6 minutes
    Harvard Senior Research Fellow Shep Doeleman
  • Science & Tech

    Making the ultimate darkness visible

    University of Arizona physicist Dimitrios Psaltis has devoted his Radcliffe fellowship to black hole imaging linked to the Event Horizon Telescope project.

    5–7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    ‘Point of no return’ found

    Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. For the first time, they have measured the black hole’s “point of no return” — the closest distance that matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into the black hole.

    2–3 minutes