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originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
Major Announcement Coming
Finally! 1st results of Event Horizon Telescope #EHT will be presented at press conferences April 10, 13:00 UT in Brussels and Washington & in peer reviewed papers. I will be in Brussels with great colleagues & panel. Keep you updated here. www.eso.org... … @ERC_Research
Twitter, Heino Falcke, @hfalcke
Next week! It has been a long wait but what will we see?
Squee!
"We have achieved something presumed to be impossible just a generation ago," concluded Doeleman. "Breakthroughs in technology, connections between the world's best radio observatories, and innovative algorithms all came together to open an entirely new window on black holes and the event horizon."
eventhorizontelescope.org...
The more mass, the bigger the hole.
At the same scale of compression, Earth would fit inside a thimble. The Sun would measure a mere six kilometres edge-to-edge.
A successful outcome depended in part on the vagaries of weather during the April 2017 observation period.
"For everything to work, we needed to have clear visibility at every [telescope] location worldwide", said IRAM scientist Pablo Torne, recalling collective tension, fatigue and, finally, relief.
The unprecedented image—so often imagined in science and science fiction —- has been analysed in six studies co-authored by 200 experts from 60-odd institutions and published Wednesday in Astrophysical Journal Letters.