Galaxies
(Aug 2023)
From Vision to Instrument: Creating a Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope for a New Era of Black Hole Science
Michael D. Johnson,
Sheperd S. Doeleman,
José L. Gómez,
Avery E. Broderick
Affiliations
Michael D. Johnson
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Sheperd S. Doeleman
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
José L. Gómez
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
Avery E. Broderick
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies11050092
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11,
no. 5
Abstract
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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration successfully imaged a supermassive black hole (SMBH) for the first time, revealing the apparent “shadow” cast by the dark compact object M87* in the center of the elliptical galaxy Virgo A [...]
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