'Groundbreaking' Milky Way results from telescope network behind 1st black hole image coming soon

The first-ever image of a black hole was created by the Earth's planet-scale observatory network.

There will be more information about the research on May 12. The sun rises at 1300GMT. It is likely that the discovery relates to the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. The Sagittarius A* has been a key target for the event horizon telescope.

A series of news conferences will be held by the Partners on the event horizon telescope project. We will stream both here on Space.com.

It's related to Eureka! Scientists took a picture of a black hole.

The team is fresh off a campaign in which they planned to conduct seven days of remote observations on objects such as black holes, galaxies and quasars.

It is not clear if this result arises from observations gathered this year, in 2021, or from previous work by the network, which faced a two-year hiatus in 2019.

The National Science Foundation, which funds the EHT, will hold a press conference.

• Katherine (Katie) L. Bouman, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Astronomy at Caltech 
• Vincent Fish, Research Scientist at MIT Haystack Observatory 
• Feryal Özel, Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Physics at University of Arizona
• Michael Johnson, Astrophysicist at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 

The European Southern Observatory will hold a press conference.

• Xavier Barcons, ESO Director General
• Huib Jan van Langevelde, EHT Project Director
• Anton Zensus, EHT Collaboration Board Founding Chair
• Thomas Krichbaum, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
• Sara Issaoun, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (USA) and Radboud University, the Netherlands
• José Gómez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Spain
• Christian Fromm, Würzburg University, Germany
• Mariafelicia de Laurentis, University of Naples "Federico II" and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy  

The open online event will start at 10:30 a.m. on the YouTube channel. Participants will include:

• Sera Markoff, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Michael Janssen, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
• Rocco Lico, Astrophysics Institute of Andalucía, Spain
• Roman Gold, South Denmark University, Denmark
• Violette Impellizzeri, Leiden University, Netherlands
• Ziri Younsi, University College London, UK

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