
ALMA NAOJ: As part of an ambitious experiment involving telescopes around the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is about to attempt to image something never-before-seen: a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and its sister project the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) are Earth-sized virtual telescopes, made possible by an international collaboration of radio telescopes including ALMA. The goal is to image, for the very first time, the shadow of the event horizon...
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