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How the gas circles around 2 fall into the BH, the reason why our galactic #EHTBlackHole is weaker than other of similar mass and why huge relativistic jets launched by BH like in M87 are all not well know. @ehtelescope images should answer some of them eventhorizontelescope.org/science
@ehtelescope has added 3 new telescopes now, including one in Greenland! This new network can make more images with even more magnification now. We have seen flares from our BH when objects fall into it and hope to image it the next time it happens businessinsider.in/A-mind-bogglin…
All of this has the entire astronomy community very excited indeed to hear what the @ehtelescope team will announce tomorrow evening. To prepare yourself more for the upcoming press conference, here are some lovely reading and listening for you ...
A beautifully written article on the @ehtelescope by @seth_fletcher in @nytimes nytimes.com/2018/10/04/mag…
The webpage of the Event Horizon Telescope @ehtelescope itself - eventhorizontelescope.org
An interview of Shep Doeleman, the PI of @ehtelescope and Andrea Ghez, of the UCLA Galactic Centre Group -
A @TEDTalks on @ehtelescope by Katie Bouman -
A slightly more involved article by Heino Falcke on the @ehtelescope project, in 2017 - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
And lastly, the Science White Paper that got the USA funding for @ehtelescope - arxiv.org/pdf/0906.3899.…
Thats all from us now, lets wait and see what the @ehtelescope will tell us tomorrow - catch them live at or nsf.gov/news/special_r…
Ahhh .. we are back again! The good folk at @ehtelescope also have a youtube channel at youtube.com/channel/UC4sIt… and a Facebook page at facebook.com/ehtelescope/
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