First Results:
EHT Black Hole Press Coverage and Media
April 10, 2019 – During simultaneous press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers reveal that they have succeeded – unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow. This breakthrough was announced in a series of six papers published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Access to the individual papers published in The Astrophysical Journal is free and can be found here.
UA Team Specific Coverage
$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Black Hole Hunters Including UA Astrophysicists UANews
University of Arizona researchers and students help capture first image of a black hole KPNX-TV
UA faculty, students part of global team that releases first photo of black hole Arizona Daily Star
University of Arizona researchers revel as first photo of black hole unveiled Tucson Sentinel
Cronkite News: Telescope on sacred Apache site used for black hole project Indianz.com
UA scientists help catch first view of black hole KGUN 9
University Of Arizona Scientists Capture First Black Hole Images Fronteras
UA well represented on global team that released first photos of a black hole Tucson.com
Baffled about the black hole image? UA scientists behind it explain The Daily Wildcat
UA Astronomers Contribute to Historic Image of Black Hole Arizona Public Media
UA Electrical Engineering Grad Student Helps Capture First Image of Black Hole UA News
Front page of a Greek newspaper
A picture is worth a petabyte of data Science Node
Tucson/University of Arizona Black Hole PIRE Team
Local Coverage
Chasing Einstein’s Shadow: UA Helps Capture First Image of a Black Hole UA News
See first picture ever taken of a black hole in space, with help from Arizona researchers The Arizona Republic
‘Chasing Einstein’s Shadow:’ First image of black hole revealed KVOA-TV
Event Horizon Telescope project announces groundbreaking results KOLD-TV
UA Helps Capture First Image of a Black Hole Tucson Weekly
First wave of coverage: April 10, 2019
See a black hole for the first time in a historic image from the Event Horizon Telescope The Washington Post
‘We have seen what we thought was unseeable’: First photo of a black hole revealed USA Today
Earth Sees First Image Of A Black Hole NPR
The Very First Image Of A Black Hole Science Friday
Seeing the unseeable: Scientists unveil the first EVER direct image of a black hole captured by global ‘virtual telescope’ Daily Mail (UK)
The incredible story behind the first image of a black hole Wired UK
The first-ever picture of a black hole is fuzzy. These incredible illustrations help explain what it shows. Business Insider
An Extraordinary Image of the Black Hole at a Galaxy’s Heart The Atlantic
Scientists unveil first image of black hole in all its dark glory CBS News
The first photo of a black hole is finally here ABC News
This is the first-ever picture of a black hole Vox
First-ever picture of a black hole unveiled National Geographic
‘Seeing the unseeable’: Scientists reveal first photo of black hole Reuters
See the first image ever taken of a supermassive black hole The Verge
The first-ever image of a black hole is revealed to the world CNBC
Eureka! Scientists Photograph a Black Hole for the 1st Time Space.com
First black hole picture: A breakthrough look from across the universe CNET
How scientists saw the ‘invisible’—and captured the first image of a black hole Popular Science
Scientists Photograph Black Hole for the First Time Ever The Daily Beast
Seeing the unseeable: Astronomers capture historic first image of a black hole Digital Trends
The nature of M87: EHT’s look at a supermassive black hole Astronomy Magazine
How scientists took the first picture of a black hole Science News
First Ever Black Hole Photo Revealed, and the Internet Is in Pure Awe Pop Culture
Scientists Photograph Black Hole for the First Time Ever Yahoo!
How They Got the Black Hole Picture That Changed Science Popular Mechanics
Dimitrios Psaltis
Feryal Ozel
CK Chan
Dan Marrone
Did scientists succeed in getting the first pictures of a black hole? AZ Central – Arizona Republic
Here’s How Scientists Turned the World Into a Telescope (to See a Black Hole) Space.com
The Internet Couldn’t Handle All the Data From the First Black Hole Photo Inverse.com
Lia Medeiros
A first look at a super massive black hole | Webinar 78
‘Results like this may inspire the next generation of scientists’, says Brazilian involved in the first photo of a black hole Globo.com (Brazil)
CS Bits and Bytes National Science Foundation
A cientista brasileira e a 1ª foto de um buraco negro Center for Physics at the University of Sao Paulo
Brasileira ajudou a capturar imagem Jovem Pan Agora April 22, 2019
Credit: The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration 2019
The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times that of the Sun.
Second Wave of Coverage
Seeing is believing: 4 lessons of the new black hole image The Associated Press
Here it is, the first-ever image of a black hole Los Angeles Times
The first-ever picture of a black hole was unveiled today. Here’s how to watch. Vox
A black hole, once a mathematical curiosity, is brought to light Christian Science Monitor
This is the first-ever photo of a black hole Matador Network
Seeing a black hole with half a ton of hard drives Six Colors
5 things to know about mysterious black holes The Arizona Republic
Astronomers Reveal First Image of a Black Hole Arizona Public Media
Peeling back the darkness of M87 EukerAlert!