From Vision to Instrument: Creating a Next-Generation Event Horizon Telescope for a New Era of Black Hole Science

• Other Authors: Johnson, Michael D. (Editor), Doeleman, Shep (Editor), Gómez, Jose L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Physics; Astronomy, space & time; black holes; general relativity; accretion; relativistic jets; very-long-baseline interferometry; SMBHs; VLBI; ngEHT; photon rings; Radio Astronomy; accretion disk; relativistic Jet; GRMHD; signal processing; very long baseline interferometry (1769); radio astronomy (1338); millimeter astronomy (1061); submillimeter astronomy (1647); radio telescopes (1360); high angular resolution (2167); astronomical instrumentation (799); AGN; radio interferometry; black hole; astrometry; SFPR; relativistic jet; interferometry; polarimetry; magnetohydrodynamics; radiative transfer; Messier 87; Sagittarius A*; supermassive black holes; very long baseline interferometry; EHT; precipitable water vapor; Very Long Baseline Interferometry; radio astronomy; millimeter astronomy; radio telescopes; high angular resolution; astronomical instrumentation; M87*; plasma composition; active galactic nuclei; imaging; instrument design; telescopes; algorithms; data analysis; SMA; correlation; GPU; Tensor Core; accretion inflows; jet launching; event horizon telescope; next-generation event horizon telescope; astronomical techniques; very long baseline interferometry (VLBI); multi-wavelength studies; Sgr A*; hot spot; dynamical image reconstruction; StarWarps; time-variability; robustness; no hair theorems; scientific collaborations; philosophy; history; social sciences; governance; visualization; neutrinos; active galaxies; galaxy jets; quasars; radio continuum; interferometric techniques; n/a; radio instrumentation
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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration successfully imaged the first supermassive black hole (M87*), opening a new era in detailed study of these exotic objects. By sharply enhancing the capabilities of black hole imaging, the next-generation EHT (ngEHT) is poised to again revolut...