Astronomers Photographing A Black Hole For The First Time

tumbling.dice · Apr 8, 2017

From April 5th until April 14th scientists with The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will be linking up radio telescopes around the world, basically creating a telescope the size of the Earth. They hope to capture the first ever images of a black hole, Sagittarius A*, located at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

"These are the observations that will help us to sort through all the wild theories about black holes — and there are many wild theories," Gopal Narayanan, an astronomy research professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said in a statement. "With data from this project, we will understand things about black holes that we have never understood before."

"[It is] like trying to image a grapefruit on the surface of the moon," Narayanan said.
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