Event Horizon Telescope

The first image of a black hole, taken by EHT.

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The Event Horizon Telescope project is an international collaboration which captured the first direct visual image of a black hole. The project used a synchronized array of eight telescopes, to create a virtual Earth-size telescope which was used to capture the image.

Participating telescopes

• Atacama Large Millimeter Array
• Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
• IRAM 30m telescope
• James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
• Large Millimeter Telescope
• Submillimeter Array
• South Pole Telescope
• Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope

External links

• Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole (eso1907)