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Event Horizon Telescope Results to be Revealed April 10

Credit: David A. Harvey

Arizona/Steward EHT members Dan Marrone (press conference participant), and Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis, CK Chan, Lia Medeiros, Junhan Kim and Arash Roshanineshat will be at an NSF press conference Wednesday, April 10.

From Astronomy/Steward's Dept Head and Director Buell Jannuzi:
"The Event Horizon Telescope is a global collaboration working to image black holes at event horizon scales. This effort involves assembling an array of telescopes observing at a wavelength of 1.3 mm in the radio band, with stations in Chile, Hawaii, Arizona, Mexico, Spain, and Antarctica.

Via an NSF press release and global simultaneous announcements, the EHT is scheduled to announce groundbreaking first results [on April 10 at 9am EDT] from data collected during the 2017 observations. The release event will include a panel of EHT members providing coherent analysis and interpretation of this unique and exciting experiment.

In addition to Steward Obseratory’s Dan Marrone, the EHT panel will include Shep Doeleman, Avery Broderick, and Sera Markoff.

At the NSF press release and representing the UA and NOAO’s large research contribution to these scientific results will be Arizona EHT members Feryal Ozel, Dimitrios Psaltis, CK Chan, Lia Medeiros, Junhan Kim and  Arash Roshanineshat. The streamed press conference starts at 6 a.m. MT. Steward folks can watch it together in N305. Others can watch it online HERE.

Please also consider joining us for another special event --

Special Steward Observatory Public Evening Talk – Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Join us for a talk with key members of the Arizona team involved with the Event Horizon Telescope as they share the monumental efforts required to photograph black holes and discuss how we will know if Einstein was right. Q&A with refreshments to follow.

Location: ENR2 Building, Room N120

Natural Resources 2 Building Auditorium N120
1064 E. Lowell Streetm University of Arizona Campus
General Seating

Parking: 6th Street Garage 

Date and Time:

Wed, April 17, 2019
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM MST (Doors open at 7PM)"

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