Eddington Expedition

LIGO first detects gravitational waves

VLTI/Gravity provides first observation of material orbiting close to the point of no return

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The first image of a black hole
Published in Apr 10, 2019.
Updated in Jun 19, 2020.
Updated in Jun 19, 2020.
On April 10, 2019, the first image ever captured of a black hole was presented to the public. But what were the events that lead to this discovery?
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13/03/2013Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
28/04/2017Katie Bouman's TED Talk
01/01/1995Existence of black holes is confirmed
01/01/1978First successful mm-VLBI observations
01/01/2003VLBI observations at 147 GHz
04/05/2011Gravity Probe B confirms frame dragging
12/04/2019Katie Bouman's talk at Caltech
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