WORLDWIDE BLACK HOLE TELESCOPE

These observatories have joined up to form a single supertelescope

1 IRAM

The Instituto de Radioastronomia Milimetrica 30-meter telescope is located in Veleta, Spain.

3 LMT

Mexico’s

Large Millimeter Telescope is integral in improving the EHT's array.

5 ALMA

ALMA is run by the European Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert.

7 JCMT

Operating since 1987, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope sits atop a volcano in Hawaii.

2 ARO/SMT

The Arizona Radio Observatory’s Submillimeter Telescope is one of two EHT hubs in the US.

4 CARMA

The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy is a US interferometer.

6 APEX

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment was instrumental in imaging black holes.

8 SMA

The Hawaiibased Submillimeter Array combines the signals gathered by each dish.

9 SPT

The South Pole Telescope further expands the coverage of the array from Antarctica.