More Images: Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
Images of M87 in Various Wavelengths of Light
(Credit: The EHT Multi-wavelength Science Working Group; the EHT
Collaboration; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); the EVN; the EAVN Collaboration;
VLBA (NRAO); the GMVA; the Hubble Space Telescope; the Neil Gehrels
Swift Observatory; the Chandra X-ray Observatory; the Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array; the Fermi-LAT Collaboration; the H.E.S.S
collaboration; the MAGIC collaboration; the VERITAS collaboration; NASA
and ESA.)
Radio, Visible, X-ray
ALMA, Hubble, Chandra
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Composite
Radio, Visible, X-ray
ALMA, Hubble, Chandra
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Radio
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
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Radio
Global Millimeter-VLBI Array
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Radio
Very Long Baseline Array
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Radio
East Asian VLBI Network
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Radio
European VLBI Network
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Radio
Atacama Large Millimeter/
submillimeter Array (ALMA)
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Radio
Atacama Large Millimeter/
submillimeter Array (ALMA)
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Visible
Hubble Space Telescope
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Visible
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
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Ultraviolet (UV)
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
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X-ray
Chandra X-ray Observatory
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X-ray
Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
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Gamma-ray
HESS, MAGIC, & VERITAS
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Gamma-ray
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first direct image of a black hole in the galaxy M87. This series of images represent an extensive observing campaign by telescopes around the globe and in space of M87's black hole and the region around it. These telescopes, which included NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, cover the entire spectrum of light from radio waves to gamma rays. The images also range in scale from a fraction of a light year to hundreds of thousands of light years. These combined data will help scientists gain crucial insight into the black hole's properties.
Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
(April 14, 2021)