04-09-2019, 02:52 PM
First "image" of a black hole to be released
Tomorrow (10th April) at 3 am HST the first results of the Event Horizon Telescope will be released to the public. The telescope actually consists of eight separate radio/submillimeter observatories around the planet that use a process called interferometry to synthesize a radio telescope with the diameter of the Earth. Two of the observatories are on Mauna Kea, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the Submillimter Array (SMA).
Obviously, you can't see a black hole directly as no light can escape from one, but the idea of the telescope is to image the material surrounding the black hole that's being pulled into it by its intense gravitational field, i.e., the event horizon.
Details available via https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
Tomorrow (10th April) at 3 am HST the first results of the Event Horizon Telescope will be released to the public. The telescope actually consists of eight separate radio/submillimeter observatories around the planet that use a process called interferometry to synthesize a radio telescope with the diameter of the Earth. Two of the observatories are on Mauna Kea, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the Submillimter Array (SMA).
Obviously, you can't see a black hole directly as no light can escape from one, but the idea of the telescope is to image the material surrounding the black hole that's being pulled into it by its intense gravitational field, i.e., the event horizon.
Details available via https://eventhorizontelescope.org/