Tuesday, 14 April 2020

A year after the first black hole image, the EHT has been stymied by the coronavirus

A year after the first black hole image, the EHT has been stymied by the coronavirus

The scientists behind the first picture of a black hole are squeezing everything they can from the data they’ve got. A year after presenting a portrait of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 (SN: 4/10/19), the Event Horizon Telescope team faces a two-year data drought, thanks to technical snafus, security snags and a global pandemic.

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