Seeing the unseeable

Abstract

The Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth-sized interferometer, aims to capture an image of a black hole's event horizon to test the theory of general relativity and probe accretion processes.

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• Resolved Magnetic-Field Structure and Variability Near the Event Horizon of Sagittarius A*
• 230 GHz VLBI observations of M87: event-horizon-scale structure at the enhanced very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray state in 2012

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