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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 16:00:01 UTC Robert McNees

   How it started / How it's going

   A paper by Falcke, Melia, and Agol appeared in The Astrophysical Journal #OTD in 1999, arguing it might be feasible to image the shadow of a distant supermassive black hole using Very Long Baseline Interferometry.

   Over the last few years, the Event Horizon Telescope has imaged the shadows of supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our own Milky Way.

   Images: EHT Collaboration.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 16:11:40 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Benjamin Knispel

     @benknispel Oh yes, I tagged him in a similar post on the bird site. Didn't realize he was here, too!

   • Benjamin Knispel (benknispel@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 16:11:41 UTC Benjamin Knispel

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     @mcnees Heino Falcke is also on Mastodon. May I tag him here?

   • Prof Heino Falcke (hfalcke@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 22:37:09 UTC Prof Heino Falcke

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     @mcnees That ist as my own version of that meme 😉