Event Horizon Telescope to try to capture images of elusive black hole edge

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Event Horizon Telescope to try to capture images of elusive black hole edge
by Emily Conover
5:00am, April 5, 2017
 

The Milky Way’s black hole may finally get its close-up.

Beginning on April 5, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope will attempt to zoom in on a never-before-imaged realm: a black hole’s event horizon. That’s the boundary at which gravity’s pull becomes so strong that nothing can escape.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/event-horizon-telescope-try-capture-images-elusive-black-hole-edge?mode=topic&context=36