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Apr 8, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
There's a black hole announcement coming this week, and it'll be a big one. It's coming from the Event Horizon Telescope, a global network of telescopes that has been working for 13 years to bring us the very first photo of a black hole.
This is a HUGE undertaking.
Black holes are among the most elusive objects in the Universe. They have such intense gravity, not even electromagnetic radiation - light, radio waves, X-rays, etc. - can travel fast enough to achieve escape velocity.
That 'point of no return' is called the event horizon.