Six years since ALMA crucially helped the Event Horizon Telescope take the first image of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy… you can relive it all below!

https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomers-capture-first-image-of-a-black-hole/

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Astronomers Capture the First Image of a Black Hole | ALMA Observatory

Press Conference Streaming The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole...

Belated May The 4th post, but I had to… this is the secret to how ALMA moves its antennas!

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