Big "groundbreaking" announcement today from the international project whose goal is to provide the first ever direct images of a super-massive black hole.

Handy 4 minute background video ...



Basically, a number of radio telescopes around the world operating at a wavelength of 1mm have been meshed together to create a telescope the size of our planet. With this, sufficient detail should be available to provide an image of what is happening around the central black holes in our own galaxy and also the giant galaxy M87.

Could be amazing.

Watch the press conference today live at 1300 GMT. https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/blackholes/