UChicago-run South Pole Telescope Contributes to First Black Hole Image

The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes, including the UChicago-run South Pole Telescope, captured the first ever image of a black hole. The black hole is at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. Read more below:

• The New York Times interviews Prof. Daniel Holz prior to the release of the image.
• Profs. John Carlstrom and Daniel Holz discuss the significance of the image on WTTW.
• Prof. Brad Benson talks about the findings generated by the black hole image on WBEZ.
• Graduate student Maya Fishbach shares what we can learn from the image in Gizmodo.
• University of Chicago releases special report on black hole media coverage.