Group wants to launch a telescope to study black holes from space
Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) group, which took both thefirst-ever image of a black holein 2019 and the first-ever image of thesupermassive black hole at the center of our galaxyin 2022, has plans for a new mission called the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX). The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is less interference from water vapor when viewing them from above the Earth’s atmosphere....