今天,事件视界望远镜(EHT)正式公布了他们的发现:一张黑洞的真正照片。这也是首个黑洞存在的直接视觉证据。
EHT(Event Horizon Telescope)是一个巨大的观测阵列,由全世界不同的地面射电望远镜组成,形成巨大的“虚拟望远镜”,并通过多次独立观测确定了星空中的一个环状结构及中间的黑暗区域是一个黑洞。
于是,这就是人类文明第一次确定地看到了这个被爱因斯坦预言的极端天体,天文与物理学的发展又进了一步。
附上整个EHT项目的相关机构列表,让我们感谢并铭记他们的贡献:
Aalto University
Brandeis University
Boston University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Center for Astronomical Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Centro Astronómico de Yebes, Instituto Geográfico Nacional
Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, Department of Space, Earth and Environment
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Cornell University, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
Google Research
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Physics
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica -- Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italian ALMA Regional Centre
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Key Laboratory of Radio Astron., Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kogakuin University of Technology Engineering
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Leiden University, Allegro / Leiden Observatory
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Nanjing University, Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics / School of Astronomy and Space Science
National Optical Astronomical Observatory
National Radio Astronomical Observatory
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Physics Depatment
National Taiwan University, Department of Physics
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie
Peking University, Department of Astronomy, School of Physics / Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Rhodes University, Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies, Department of Physics and Electronics
Seoul National University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tohoku University, Astronomy Institute / Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Department of Statistical Science / Department of Astronomical Science
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
The University of Tokyo, Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science / Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Universidad de Concepción, Astronomy Department
Universitat de València (Departament d'Astronomia i Astrofísica / Observatori Astronòmic)
University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory
University of Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Institute & GRAPPA
University of California Berkeley, Radio Astronomy Laboratory
University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Physics
University of Illinois, Department of Astronomy / Department of Physics
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Astronomy
University of Pretoria, Department of Physics
University of St. Petersburg, Astronomy Institute
University of Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China, Astronomy Department
University of Toronto, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Waterloo, Waterloo Center for Astrophysics / Department of Physics and Astronomy
Yonsei University, Department of Astronomy
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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