Event Horizon Telescope
The Event Horizon Telescope is a mm- network of existing (and up-coming) mm-wavelength telescopes spread across several continents to form a virtual telescope the size of the Earth using VLBI. The possibility of this telescope was first presented in a paper by Falcke et al. (2000). Radboud University professor Falcke is the current president of the scientific council of the EHT Consortium. The EHT network consists of existing mm-wave radio telescopes on high and dry places around the globe:
The EHT includes mm-telescopes in Europe (IRAM Pico Veleta, NOEMA), USA (JCMT/SMA, SMT, KPNO), Mexico (LMT), South America (APEX, ALMA), and South Pole.
The EHT Consortium is formed by world leading institutions, including:
- our Radboud University
- the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- the University of Arizona
- the University of Chicago
- the East Asian Observatory
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (part of the Center for Astrophysics)
- Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique (IRAM, itself a collaboration between the French CNRS, the German Max Planck Society, and the Spanish Instituto Geográfico Nacional),
- Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano
- Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
- MITHaystack Observatory
- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
The European part of the EHT is formed by the BlackholeCam project