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You're looking at the first ever image of a black hole. It was captured by the
#NSFFunded@ehtelescope project.#ehtblackhole#RealBlackHole https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/formedia.jsp …pic.twitter.com/0hclANf4tc
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How scientists at the
#NSFFunded@ehtelescope captured the first-ever image of a black hole.#EHTBlackHole#RealBlackHolepic.twitter.com/grYyXACh1FHow scientists captured the first image of a black holeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
From our Director France Córdova: A Historic Day for Astrophysics
#EHTBlackHole#RealBlackHolehttp://nsfdirectorfieldnotes.tumblr.com/post/184084391321/collaboration-and-innovation-lead-to-the …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
The team from
@ehtelescope just released the first ever image of a black hole. How did they capture something that until now has never been seen?#EHTBlackHole#RealBlackHolehttps://medium.com/@NSF/why-are-black-holes-so-camera-shy-2fcc9da29d03 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
The story of
@ehtelescope’s quest to capture the first image of a black hole was covered by@SmithsonianChan’s documentary “Black Hole Hunters” premiering this Friday.#RealBlackHole#EHTBlackHolepic.twitter.com/49Ycr4c2nzThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Sera Markoff of
@uva_api: Can use what we’ve learned so far to understand how the tiniest physical scales near the black holes, visible for the first time via the@ehtelescope ultimately help determine the fate of entire galaxies.#RealBlackHole#EHTblackholeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Broderick:
@ehtelescope,@LIGO & near-infrared interferometry “verify a key prediction of Einstein's theory of gravity: despite masses that now vary across 9 orders of magnitude, black holes are all consistent with single description”#RealBlackHoleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Dan Marrone of
@UofA says in a few weeks of observing,@ehtelescope project collected approx 1000 disks, 5 petabytes of data, equivalent to "all of the selfies that 40k people will take in their lifetime."#RealBlackHole#ehtblackholepic.twitter.com/6A0OBNVqBn
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Doleman: “We've exposed a part of our unvierse we've never seen before... We find this result to be inspiring and we hope that everyone else will also find it as inspiring.”
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Doleman: To build a telescope that makes this image is the work of many careers. This is the work of a large collaboration: over 200 people in 20 countries and 60 institutes all bound by a common science vision
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The
@ehtelescope team built an Earth-sized telescope by linking radio dishes around the world. In April 2017, all they all swiveled to look at the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a galaxy in Virgo constellation.#RealBlackHole#EHTBlackHolepic.twitter.com/0hUPpDbYkHThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
“I am delighted to report that we have for the first time we have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have taken the first picture of a black hole." Shep Doeleman,
@ehtelescope director and sr. research fellow at@saoastro#RealBlackHole#EHTBlackHoleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
To be able to image a black hole
#ehtblackhole researchers needed to create a telescope with the same level of detail as seeing an date on a quarter from in L.A. from D.CShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Shep Doeleman
@ehtelescope director and sr. research fellow at@saoastro: Black holes are objects so massive and so compact that light cannot escape. We think they exist throughout the universe, but we have never seen one.#RealBlackHole#ehtblackholeShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
“The
@ehtelescope demonstrates that we need more collaboration, more convergence, more shared resources to build instruments and find new opportunities for the ones we already have, allowing us to tackle the universe’s biggest mysteries .#EHTBlackhole”Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
“It was an endeavor so remarkable that
@NSF has invested more than $30 million over a decade – joined by many other agencies in our support -- as these researchers shaped their idea into reality.#EHTBlackhole”Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
France Córdova,
@NSF Director: “Today, the@ehtelescope project will announce findings that will transform and enhance our understanding of black holes. As an astrophysicist, this is a thrilling day for me"#EHTBlackholepic.twitter.com/00SPnjFqMD
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Starting now: Major announcement on
#blackholes today@NSF and@ehtelescopehttp://nsf.gov/blackholesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Major announcement on
#blackholes today from@NSF and@ehtelescope at 9 am EDT. Watch live here: http://nsf.gov/blackholes orhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJi0Jy692w …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Major announcement on
#blackholes today from@NSF and @ehtelecope at 9 am EDT. Watch live here:http://nsf.gov/blackholesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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