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Apr 10, 2019

Live press conference on major black hole announcement from Event Horizon Telescope and the National Science Foundation

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Apr 10, 2019

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

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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 researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.

This breakthrough was announced today in a series of six papers published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87 [1], a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun [2].

The EHT links telescopes around the globe to form an unprecedented Earth-sized virtual telescope [3]. The EHT offers scientists a new way to study the most extreme objects in the Universe predicted by Einstein’s general relativity during the centenary year of the historic experiment that first confirmed the theory [4].

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Apr 10, 2019

Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87

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The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun

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Apr 9, 2019

PRESS RELEASE: Anthony Watts Joins The Heartland Institute

Posted by in categories: climatology, cosmology, sustainability

A Black Hole of Global Warming Stupidity has been formed. Beware of the event horizon.


Meteorologist and founder of most-read climate website in the world named senior fellow.

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Apr 9, 2019

The first-ever photo of a black hole is expected very soon

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Are you excited?


Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will present a “groundbreaking result” from the project on April 10, according to a media advisory.

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Apr 9, 2019

LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on

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One week after LIGO switched back on, it has already detected the gravitational waves from another pair of merging black holes, marking the beginning of a new era of gravitational wave astronomy.

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Apr 9, 2019

Media Advisory: Press Conference on First Result from the Event Horizon Telescope

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Tomorrow (April 10) at 3pm CEST (9am Eastern Time) the first results from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will be announced:

The scientific mission of the EHT is to capture an image of a black hole horizon. So far, we have indirect evidence for the existence of a black hole horizon, but have not actually “seen” one.


ESO, european organisation for astronomical research in the southern hemisphere.

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Apr 8, 2019

A star turned into a black hole before Hubble’s very eyes

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Bye bye supernova.

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Apr 6, 2019

Scientists set to unveil first picture of a black hole

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The world, it seems, is soon to see the first picture of a black hole.

On Wednesday, astronomers across the globe will hold “six major press conferences” simultaneously to announce the first results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which was designed precisely for that purpose.

It has been a long wait.

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Apr 5, 2019

Astronomers are all set to make a “groundbreaking” black hole announcement

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Thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, Black Holes are about to be seen by humans for the first time.

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