Astronomers Planning To Image Milky Way's Central Black Hole

99luftballon writes "Astronomers are planning the Event Horizon Telescope project in Arizona on Wednesday — and say in three or four years they should be able to image the ring of matter around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole is 26,000 light years away, but should be large enough to check if Einstein got his equations right."

Re:INbeforeSpam

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty sure that some /. contributor already has a picture of that "ring of matter around the supermassive black hole" and is eager to share it with us.

Oh, Einstein.

[Samantha Wright]

Will people ever stop checking your equations?

Oh Noes!

[fazil]

Divide by ZERO!

Liberate tutemae ex inferis!

[bazald]

Liberate tutemae ex inferis!!!

Re:INbeforeSpam

[idbeholda]

I don't see why they're building such a telescope, because where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Oh, /.

[Anonymous Coward]

All these posts in a story about a "black hole" and not one goatse link?

Re:Oh, /.

[Anonymous Coward]

Be patient grasshopper.

Re:INbeforeSpam

[gstoddart]

telescope looking at a blockhole

Holy crap! It's the lesser known cubic blockhole ... much more sneaky and secretive than blackholes.

I spell goodly! :-P