The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), hopes the team, will be able to image the ring of matter at the event horizon that surrounds the black hole. Even five years ago, such a proposal would not have the seemed credible," it's says Sheperd Doeleman, assistant director of the Haystack Observatory at MIT and principal investigator of the EHT. "Now we have the technological means to take a stab at it."
The EHT will consist of up to 50 radio telescopes scattered around the globe, including the Submillimeter Telescope on Mt. Graham in Arizona, telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy in California.
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