# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 11 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 11 results [### Focus on the First Event Horizon Telescope Results ](/news/focus-first-event-horizon-telescope-results) April 10, 2019 Focus on the First Event Horizon Telescope Results Shep Doeleman (EHT Director) on behalf of the EHT Collaboration April 2019 We report the first image of a black hole. This Focus Issue shows ultra-high angular resolution images of radio emission from the... ![First Image of Supermassive Black Hole M87. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/m87_eht_collaboration.png?itok=MPrV_C3y) [### Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole: An international collaboration presents paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87 ](/news/astronomers-capture-first-image-black-hole-international-collaboration-presents) April 10, 2019 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT... ![First Image of Supermassive Black Hole M87. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/m87_eht_collaboration.png?itok=MPrV_C3y) [### EHT Panel Selected for SXSW in March 2019 ](/news/eht-panel-selected-sxsw-march-2019) January 01, 2019 Predicted almost a century ago by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, black holes not only exist, but actually power some of the most extreme phenomena in the Universe. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a global effort to construct an Earth-sized... ![SXSW Conference & Festivals, March 8-17, 2019.](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/19_seeyouatsx-conference_ig-1.png?itok=G0qkm5pj) [### Lifting the veil on the heart of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. ](/news/lifting-veil-heart-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy) January 21, 2019 Cambridge, MA--A black hole four million times as massive as our Sun lurks at the center of the Milky Way. This black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), swallows nearby material that glows brightly as it approaches the event horizon. This galactic... ![simulation of black hole image](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/black-hole-accreting-simulation-radboud_1024.jpg?itok=ILPxh4Og) [### 2019 Science Breakthrough of the Year: Imaging the Event Horizon ](https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/12/11/2019s-science-breakthrough-of-the-year-will-show-us-a-black-holes-event-horizon/#7a556d7c10ae) December 11, 2018 With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity accumulates only grows and grows. At the start of 2015, humanity had never detected a gravitational wave; at present, we've detected 11, and full expect to find perhaps hundreds... ![Image of the EHT network.](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/https-blogs-images.forbes.com-startswithabang-files-2017-05-eht_components.jpg?itok=EBeLhotx) [### Event Horizon Telescope ready to image black hole ](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38937141) February 16, 2017 They have built an Earth-sized "virtual telescope" by linking a large array of radio receivers - from the South Pole, to Hawaii, to the Americas and Europe. There is optimism that observations to be conducted during 5-14 April could finally deliver the... ![Simulated image of a black hole](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/_94654228_vlcsnap-2017-02-10-16h47m41s300-2.jpg?itok=1eryFd2o) [### How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? With a Telescope as Big as the Earth ](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html) October 04, 2018 We live 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. That’s a rounding error by cosmological standards, but still — it’s far. When the light now reaching Earth from the galactic center first took flight, people were crossing the Bering Strait land... ![Illustration of Black Hole](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/04blackhole1-superjumbo-v3.jpg?itok=MUJMjZH_) [### An ‘Earth-sized’ telescope takes aim at the first-ever image of a black hole ](/news/%E2%80%98earth-sized%E2%80%99-telescope-takes-aim-first-ever-image-black-hole) April 07, 2017 Selected Articles: Nature: How to hunt for a black hole with a telescope the size of Earth NBC News: Earth-Sized Telescope May Let Us See a Black Hole for the First Time Ever Vox: Astronomers just turned on a planet-size telescope to take a picture of a... ![Simulated image of a black hole](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/_94654228_vlcsnap-2017-02-10-16h47m41s300-2.jpg?itok=1eryFd2o) [### NY Times: Black Hole Hunters ](/news/black-hole-hunters) June 08, 2015 "Aiming to make the first portrait of the hungry monster at the center of our galaxy, astronomers built 'a telescope as big as the world.'" NYT: [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/science/black-hole-event-horizon-tele…](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/science/black-hole-event-horizon-telescope.html) ![Sheperd Doeleman, seated at left, and other scientists monitored data in the control room of the Large Millimeter Telescope. Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/09BLACKHOLEJP2-master675.jpg?itok=Mikb98Gi) [### How a global network of telescopes may give us first glimpse of a black hole ](/news/how-global-network-telescopes-may-give-us-first-glimpse-black-hole) November 24, 2014 "Even though black holes are vital to our understanding of the universe, no one has ever seen one -- yet. To change this, a team of scientists in northern Chile, is using a network of telescopes around the globe to capture an image of a black hole for the... ![Screen Capture of Doeleman](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sdoeleman/files/screen_shot_2016-09-29_at_1.29.58_pm.png?itok=-9ysivt-) [### Globe-spanning telescope array glimpses magnetic field around Milky Way’s black hole ](/news/globe-spanning-telescope-array-glimpses-magnetic-field-around-milky-way%E2%80%99s-black-hole) December 03, 2015 "A wide-ranging array of radio dishes trained on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has revealed a glimpse of the magnetic field close to the Milky Way’s dark heart. The results could help explain why black holes, although not... ![Black hole cartoon](/sites/g/files/omnuum1571/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sn-blackhole_1_0.jpg?itok=A4_7HTnf)