Title and Abstract for Lindy’s talk:
Black
hole
imaging
with
the
Event
Horizon
Telescope
The
Event
Horizon
Telescope
(EHT)
Collaboration
released
the
first
image
of
black
hole
in
April
of
this
year,
opening
the
field
of
horizon-scale
study
of
the
spacetime
and
environments
around
black
holes
via
direct
imaging.
The
radio
image,
taken
at
a
wavelength
of
1.3
mm
(230
GHz)
and
using
the
technique
of
very-long-baseline
interferometry,
matches
that
of
lensed
photons
from
relativistic
magnetized
plasma
surrounding
a
6.5
billion
solar
mass
black
hole
at
the
center
of
M87.
I
will
introduce
the
EHT
instrument
and
first
results,
highlighting
the
challenges
in
processing,
calibrating,
and
fitting
images
and
models
to
the
originally
petabytes
of
data
from
the
heterogeneous
EHT
array.
I
will
also
discuss
next
steps
for
the
EHT,
including
plans
for
higher
fidelity
imaging
and
movie-making
with
the
addition
of
antennas
on
the
ground
and
in
space.