The first image of a black hole
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On April 10, 2019, the first image ever captured of a black hole was presented to the public. But what were the events that lead to this discovery?
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- Scientific developments
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This timeline has 34 events:
29/05/1919Eddington Expedition
13/03/2013Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
10/04/2019 • 10:00:00The first image of a black hole is presented to the public
25/09/2005Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
01/01/1987James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
01/11/2003Submillimeter Array
28/04/2017Katie Bouman's TED Talk
01/01/1781Discovery of the M87 galaxy
01/01/1995Existence of black holes is confirmed
11/03/1968Shapiro time delay
01/01/1978First successful mm-VLBI observations
11/01/1995 • 18:35:00Tremendous Mass Concentration in Strange Galaxy Revealed by VLBA
01/01/2003VLBI observations at 147 GHz
04/05/2011Gravity Probe B confirms frame dragging
11/02/2016LIGO first detects gravitational waves
12/04/2019Katie Bouman's talk at Caltech