Event Horizon Telescope Live Press Conference

I had a brief conversation about this and the Falcon Heavy launch with my quantum professor, who is very deep into black holes. I completely understand why they're very excited about this announcement, and I am pumped as well. But they should be a bit excited for the falcon heavy launch as well, if we had a radio telescope on the far side of the moon with a decent clock the resolution on this announcement would an order of magnitude better. That kind of project will be more feasible as launches get cheaper. edit: The radio telescope on the moon's data would be integrated into the rest of the networks, this would permit a virtual aperture diameter about ~50 times larger.

The papers with the scientific details are here (open access):

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_E...

Article in physics world with comparisons to simulations:

https://physicsworld.com/a/first-images-of-a-black-hole-unve...

"AskScience" AMA on Reddit about the breakthrough:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bbknik/askscien...

It keeps failing for me after a few ten seconds. Anyone else having this problem? (Other YT live streams seem to work fine.)

A very good (technical) talk about the EHT project and the physics they try to do here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiS1OJNBrvk

It is a bit old (2012), but comprehensive and with both good audio and readable slides.

Direct link to youtube streaminng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr20f19czeE