The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

Dominic W. Pesce; Lindy Blackburn; Sheperd S. Doeleman; Garret Fitzpatrick; Michael D. Johnson; Aaron Oppenheimer; Jonathan Weintroub

doi:10.1117/12.3018573

28 August 2024 The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

Dominic W. Pesce, Lindy Blackburn, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Garret Fitzpatrick, Michael D. Johnson, Aaron Oppenheimer, Jonathan Weintroub

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Proceedings Volume 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X; 130941T (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018573
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) will be a transformative upgrade to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), capable of making real-time and time-lapse movies of supermassive black holes on event horizon scales. These movies will resolve complex structure and dynamics in the immediate vicinity of the event horizon, bringing into focus not just the persistent strong-field gravity features predicted by General Relativity (GR), but details of active accretion and relativistic jet-launching that drive large scale structure in the Universe. This effort builds upon recent results by the EHT: the first image of M87’s supermassive black hole and its magnetic field structure, as well as resolved images of Sgr A*, the central black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

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Dominic W. Pesce, Lindy Blackburn, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Garret Fitzpatrick, Michael D. Johnson, Aaron Oppenheimer, and Jonathan Weintroub "The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope", Proc. SPIE 13094, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes X, 130941T (28 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018573

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