{"id":91490,"date":"2019-05-31T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/peering-through-spacetime-eht-could-read-a-newspaper-in-nyc-from-a-sidewalk-cafe-in-berlin"},"modified":"2019-05-31T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T05:22:01","slug":"peering-through-spacetime-eht-could-read-a-newspaper-in-nyc-from-a-sidewalk-cafe-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/peering-through-spacetime-eht-could-read-a-newspaper-in-nyc-from-a-sidewalk-cafe-in-berlin","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeering Through Spacetime\u201d \u2013\u2018EHT Could Read a Newspaper in NYC from a Sidewalk Caf\u00e9 in Berlin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/peering-through-spacetime-eht-could-read-a-newspaper-in-nyc-from-a-sidewalk-cafe-in-berlin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first direct image of the M87 Galaxy\u2019s supermassive black hole that\u2019s almost the size of our solar system required telescopes of unprecedented precision and sensitivity to give the human species a look into the unknown. The realization of this telescope \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/\">Event Horizon Telescope<\/a> \u2013 was a formidable challenge which required upgrading and connecting a planet-scale network of eight pre-existing telescopes deployed at a variety of challenging high-altitude sites, including volcanoes in Hawaii and Mexico, mountains in Arizona and the Spanish Sierra Nevada, the Chilean Atacama Desert, and Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>We gave humanity its first view of a black hole \u2014 \u201ca one-way door out of our universe,\u201d said EHT project director <a href=\"https:\/\/bhi.fas.harvard.edu\/people\/sheperd-doeleman\">Sheperd S. Doeleman<\/a> of the Center for Astrophysics, of the image of the massive black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy M87 as it was 55 million years ago \u201cThis is a landmark in astronomy, an unprecedented scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gates of hell, the end of space and time.\u201d That was how black holes were described at the press conference in Brussels where the first ever photograph of one was revealed. The black hole, a super-massive object at the center of M87 shown above, really is a monster, observed<a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2019\/04\/eht-scientists-reboot-journey-to-the-supermassive-heart-of-elliptical-galaxy-m87\/\"> Ellie Mae O\u2019Hagan<\/a> for The Guardian. \u201cEverything unfortunate enough to get too close to it falls in and never emerges again, including light itself. It\u2019s the point at which every physical law of the known universe collapses. Perhaps it is the closest thing there is to hell: it is an abyss, a moment of oblivion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2019\/05\/peering-through-spacetime-eht-could-read-a-newspaper-in-nyc-from-a-sidewalk-cafe-in-berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first direct image of the M87 Galaxy\u2019s supermassive black hole that\u2019s almost the size of our solar system required telescopes of unprecedented precision and sensitivity to give the human species a look into the unknown. The realization of this telescope \u2013 the Event Horizon Telescope \u2013 was a formidable challenge which required upgrading and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}