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    Are We About To See A Black Hole?

    A project called the Event Horizon Telescope is analyzing data taken earlier this year using interferometry — and we may be remarkably close to "seeing" a black hole, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.
    by Adam Frank Sep 21, 2017 3 minutes
    A jet emanating from galaxy M87 can be seen in this July 6, 2000, photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

    If there is one thing science is good for, it's going to extremes.

    A lot of science's history is just one story after another of people figuring out how to do something that, just a few years before, was thought to be impossible.

    The impossible was heavy on my mind last Wednesday as I found out just how close we were to seeing — as in taking actual pictures — of black holes.

    is a computational astrophysicist. Like me, he uses supercomputers to simulate the (or EHT) has gotten in the project of seeing black holes.

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