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We are pleased to announce that the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has been awarded the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award for the first image of the central supermassive black hole in M87*!🤩🏆. EHT scientists José-Luis Gómez and Andrew Chael accepted the prize in Beijing.

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🌍📡 The global Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team met earlier this month in Berlin for the 2025 Collaboration Meeting!.120+ researchers shared breakthroughs, planned 2026 observations, and discussed turning black hole images into time-lapse “movies.”🎬

Black hole science doesn't just include the EHT; the Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope will soon capture black hole movies to study how black holes feed, launch jets, and warp spacetime✨🎬 . Read the award-winning paper by EHT-affiliated scientists🥇

Next week, The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration will hold its 2025 meeting in Berlin!🇩🇪. 120 international scientists will gather to discuss the next big goals for black hole science – publishing new, better images using recent data and creating "movies" of M87*✨

Imagine a donut. now squash it🍩. That's what the black hole inside M87* looks like!. New EHT research reveals that the squishy distortion is not due to gravity, but the turbulent, swirling plasma around the black hole: #space #blackhole #astronomy

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Today's black hole science lesson💫✏️🤓 #BlackHole #science #astronomy #space #astrophysics. Simulation credit: Vedant Dhruv (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Did you know that black holes are spinning?🌀🔎 To find out just how fast, EHT researchers used AI to connect simulated data to actual EHT measurements of M87 and SgrA*. They found that the black hole in SgrA* spins almost as fast as physically possible!

Could you starwatch all night? The IRAM 30-m telescope can!✨🌌 This observing mode is called VLBI, which involves telescopes around the world viewing the same object at the same time, such as a black hole, then combining the data to get super-high-resolution images.

You asked, we answered!🫡 Here are some of our favorite questions from last Friday's Reddit Ask Me Anything for #BlackHoleWeek2025. Have more questions about the mysteries of black holes❓Read the full thread here:

As we've seen this Black Hole Week, black holes have gone from theory to image, from mysteries to measurements. Now, the EHT is entering a new era, where more telescopes around the world — and maybe in space — will capture time-lapse “movies” of black holes. Popcorn, anyone?🎥🍿

Do you have burning black hole questions? Are you curious about the process of astronomy imaging and engineering, space physics or theory? To wrap up Black Hole Week, join the EHT for an Ask Me Anything on Reddit this afternoon from 3-5 pm ET!

About 27,000 light years away, with a mass of more than 4 million Suns, lies the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. If you were to approach it, you’d be deceived by its size - the shadow is roughly twice as big as the black hole’s actual surface!⚫️

Behold Perseus A, one of the closest active supermassive black holes, at 230 million light years away. Composite images like this one from the NRAO, Chandra, Hubble, and the EHT can help us study black holes and their environments, which influence each other.🛰️

Centaurus A is the closest radio galaxy to Earth. Radio galaxies feature two-sided jets that are ejected from the galaxy’s central black hole and measure up to millions of light years long. These jets are theorized to spread energy and affect the growth of their host galaxies.💫

Happy Black Hole Week! This is Messier 87; despite being located about 55 million light years away, the EHT peered at its beating heart in 2017 for its first image. Did you know that the location of the brightest region around the black hole, and its shadow, can change yearly?🔭

Ever wonder how to study the nature of spacetime and the edges of physics? These mischievous black holes have a clue! . Join the Event Horizon Telescope for #BlackHoleWeek2025, May 5th-9th, as we highlight pieces of the black hole science jigsaw puzzle.🌟

Observing the sky for days at a time is hard work - for pets and humans🐈! Here are some of the incredible astronomers who made the 2025 EHT Observing Campaign a success.🌟See more on our Instagram: