Event Horizon Telescope & Astronomy Month
Hey Space Placers! from at sea aboard the ms Oosterdam in the Gulf of Mexico. A cosmic first got underway this week - humanity’s attempt to image a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) http://eventhorizontelescope.org . Using radio telescopes located around the globe to combine their separate signals into the equivalent of an Earth sized radio telescope antenna, the EHT will be making several observations. Radio Telescopes like this one atop Mauna Kea, HI will be used worldwide to obtain the 1st ever image of a black hole Greg Redfern EHT will try and image the supermassive black hole (SBH) located at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) and the SBH located in nearby galaxy M87. EHT will also be observing several other galaxies. SBHs are thought to be at the center of most galaxies. Sgr A* is over FOUR MILLION times as massive as our Sun and is 26,000 light years distant. Du...