At 9:00 am EST on May 12, 2022, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the event horizon telescope (EHT) project will hold a press conference to introduce eht's new Galaxy observation results. The press conference will last about one hour. The director of ESA will make an opening statement.
Huib Jan van langevelde, eht project director, and Anton zensus, founding chairman of the EHT cooperation committee, will also deliver speeches. A team of EHT researchers will explain the results and answer questions.
The team consists of the following:
Thomas krichbaum, Max Planck Institute of radio astronomy, Germany
Sara issaoun, Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the United States and Radboud University in the Netherlands
Jos é L. g ó mez, astronomical Institute of Andalusia, Spain (CSIC).
Christian Fromm, University of vilzburg, Germany
Mariafelicia de laurentis, University of Federico II and National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Naples, Italy
After the press conference, ESA will hold an online event for the public on its YouTube channel: a live Q & a session, where the public will have the opportunity to ask questions to another eht expert group.
The team will be composed of the following personnel
Sera Markoff, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Michael Janssen, Max Planck Institute of radio astronomy, Germany
Rocco LiCo, Institute of astrophysics, Andalucia, Spain and Institute of radio astronomy, Italy
Roman gold, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Violette impellizzeri, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Ziri younsi, University College London, UK
Although most speculation revolves around observations related to the imaging of Sagittarius A *, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky way, the announcement has so far been a closely guarded secret. This is because the last major announcement of the event horizon Telescope project was three years ago, when they released the first ever image of a black hole and its shadow. In 2017, scientists used the event horizon telescope to obtain an image of the black hole in the center of M87 galaxy. The image is outlined by the emission of hot gas rotating around M87 under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon. This image is widely known all over the world.