What is the Event Horizon Telescope?

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration explain how they created an "Earth-sized" telescope to capture humanity's historic first image of a black hole. Learn more: https://insidetheperimeter.ca/black-hole-breakthrough-astronomers-release-landmark-image Download free posters celebrating the EHT and the landmark image it attained: https://insidetheperimeter.ca/celebrate-the-ehts-black-hole-breakthrough-with-these-free-posters The EHT Collaboration consists of 13 stakeholder institutes; the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the University of Arizona, the University of Chicago, the East Asian Observatory, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, Large Millimeter Telescope, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, MIT Haystack Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Radboud University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.