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• National Science Foundation Holds News Conference On First Results From Event Horizon Telescope Project

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  WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: Event Horizon Telescope Director Sheperd Doeleman reveals the first photograph of a black hole during a news conference organized by the National Science Foundation at the National Press Club April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

• National Science Foundation Holds News Conference On First Results From Event Horizon Telescope Project

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  WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: (L-R) Event Horizon Telescope Director Sheperd Doeleman, University of Arizona Associate Professor of Astronomy Dan Marrone University of Waterloo Associate Professor Avery Broderick and University of Amsterdam Professor of Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics Sera Markoff hold a news conference to reveal the first photograph of a black hole at the National Press Club April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

• National Science Foundation Holds News Conference On First Results From Event Horizon Telescope Project

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  IN SPACE - APRIL 10: In this handout photo provided by the National Science Foundation, the Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon, in an image released on April 10, 2019. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. (Photo by National Science Foundation via Getty Images)
• National Science Foundation Holds News Conference On First Results From Event Horizon Telescope Project

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  WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: Event Horizon Telescope Director Sheperd Doeleman reveals the first photograph of a black hole during a news conference organized by the National Science Foundation at the National Press Club April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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