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alan
post Apr 5 2019, 06:22 PM
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On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration will present its first results in six simultaneous press conferences around the world, and many satellite events organized by its stakeholder and affiliated institutions. Press conferences will be held simultaneously in Brussels (in English), Santiago (in Spanish), Shanghai (in Mandarin), Tokyo (in Japanese), Taipei (in Mandarin), and Washington D.C. (in English), starting at 13:00 Universal Time.

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/medi...nted-april-10th
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post Oct 16 2019, 07:51 PM
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You could see both sides of the part of the acretion disk behind the black hole if you're viewing nearly edge-on, due to the bending of the rays around the hole. See the "Why the Gargantua Black Hole from Interstellar is Completely Different" section of the page I linked to above.
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- alan   Event Horizon Telescope   Apr 5 2019, 06:22 PM
- - dtolman   Just to be clear as to expected results - this is ...   Apr 5 2019, 07:59 PM
- - fredk   Just to be absolutely clear, since the caption for...   Apr 5 2019, 08:36 PM
- - dtolman   The image has been released! Its remarkably ...   Apr 10 2019, 01:20 PM
|- - fredk   QUOTE (dtolman @ Apr 10 2019, 02:20 PM) T...   Oct 11 2019, 08:39 PM
- - ngunn   I wanted to understand at a basic level what we ar...   Apr 11 2019, 11:19 AM
- - dtolman   This video has a nice explanation (and some great ...   Apr 11 2019, 06:23 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (dtolman @ Apr 11 2019, 07:23 PM) b...   Apr 11 2019, 06:52 PM
- - scalbers   One thing I'm unclear on is how much different...   Oct 16 2019, 06:49 PM
- - fredk   You could see both sides of the part of the acreti...   Oct 16 2019, 07:51 PM

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