An artist’s conception of a supermassive black gap on the middle of a galaxy. Credit score: Picture courtesy of ESA/AOES Medialab
Right now (Might 12, 2022) at 9:00 a.m. EDT (6:00 a.m. PDT, 15:00 CEST) The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Occasion Horizon Telescope (EHT) undertaking will maintain a press convention to current new Milky Approach outcomes from the EHT.
The ESO Director Normal will ship the opening phrases. EHT Venture Director Huib Jan van Langevelde and EHT Collaboration Board Founding Chair Anton Zensus will even ship remarks. A panel of EHT researchers will clarify the outcome and reply questions. This panel consists of:
- Thomas Krichbaum, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
- Sara Issaoun, Middle for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, US and Radboud College, the Netherlands
- José L. Gómez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Spain
- Christian Fromm, Würzburg College, Germany
- Mariafelicia de Laurentis, College of Naples “Federico II” and the Nationwide Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
You'll be able to watch it reside within the YouTube reside stream embedded under:
Following the press convention, ESO will host an internet occasion for the general public on its YouTube channel: a reside query and reply session the place members of the general public can have the chance to question one other panel of EHT consultants. This panel can be composed of:
- Sera Markoff, College of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Michael Janssen, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
- Rocco Lico, Astrophysics Institute of Andalucía, Spain and Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy
- Roman Gold, Southern Denmark College, Denmark
- Violette Impellizzeri, Leiden College, Netherlands
- Ziri Younsi, College School London, UK
This YouTube occasion will begin at 10:30 a.m. EDT (7:30 a.m. PDT, 16:30 CEST) and final for roughly one hour.
Utilizing the Occasion Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained a picture of the black gap on the middle of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from sizzling gasoline swirling round it beneath the affect of sturdy gravity close to its occasion horizon. Credit: Occasion Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.
The announcement has been a carefully guarded secret, though most hypothesis facilities round an announcement associated to imaging of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black gap on the middle of the Milky Approach. It's because the final main announcement from the Occasion Horizon Telescope undertaking was three years in the past once they launched the first-ever picture of a black gap and its shadow (see above picture.)
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