PETALING JAYA: Astronomers from Universiti Malaya (UM) were part of the international team that made the first images of a black hole a reality.
The images were captured using the Event Horizon Telescope — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration designed to capture the images of a black hole.a VLBI expert of the Radio Cosmology Laboratory in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science in UM.
This breakthrough was announced on Wednesday in a series of six papers published in a special issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "We have taken the first picture of a black hole," said EHT project director Sheperd S. Doeleman of the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.Black holes are extraordinary cosmic objects with enormous masses but extremely compact sizes.
Multiple calibration and imaging methods have revealed a ring-like structure with a dark central region — the black hole’s shadow — that persisted over multiple independent EHT observations. Creating the EHT was a formidable challenge which required upgrading and connecting a worldwide network of eight pre-existing telescopes deployed at a variety of challenging high-altitude sites.
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