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📣 🚨 📣 A major announcement is expected tomorrow from the Event Horizon Telescope @ehtelescope #EHTblackhole [thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼]
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The @ehtelescope is not just one, but eight telescopes stationed across the globe to create a huge virtual observatory - big enough to capture the first ever details of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way... 
(The @ehtelescope is so big, in fact, that a typical night of observations will yield about as much data as a year’s worth of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.) 🤯
Nature reporter @dcastelvecchi wrote about the @ehtelescope in "How to hunt for a black hole with a telescope the size of Earth" 👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼go.nature.com/BlackHoles
The @ehtelescope aims to close in on the black hole’s event horizon, the very edge of the black hole. Beyond here, gravity is so strong that nothing that passes can ever climb back out. Surrounding this is the "accretion disk", a swirling mass of matter that spirals inwards...
Because of the intense gravity near black holes, light emitted by the accretion disk gets warped around the event horizon. Even the part of the disk behind the black hole is visible from the front.
Radiation collected by the @ehtelescope could resemble this simulation of light bending around a black hole. One side appears brighter because more of the radiation is shifted towards the observing wavelengths, like an uneven halo.
Astrophysicists are also interested in how observations from the @ehtelescope could explain the giant jets of particles that certain supermassive black holes spew out into intergalactic space at close to the speed of light...
