Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)

The Event Horizon Telescope is a global scientific collaboration that links radio telescopes around the world to create a virtual, Earth-sized telescope. The EHT famously captured the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019, specifically the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87.

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An image of the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy

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First image of Milky Way's previously unseeable black hole

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An international astronomy team gave the world its first glimpse of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way.

The southern lights — aurora australis — over the South Pole Telescope

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International array captures the unseeable with a 'virtual telescope'

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The Event Horizon Telescope pulled off one of astrophysicists' longtime dreams by documenting a supermassive black hole.