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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope. This short animated movie explains some of the nuts and bolts behind this ambitious endeavour.…

This week we'll see a direct image of one of the most powerful objects in existence, and it might shift our understanding of how the universe works.

An international team of more than 200 astronomers, including scientists from MIT’s Haystack Observatory, has captured the first direct images of a black hole.

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