A Proposal for Constructing a New Sub-mm VLBI Array, Horizon Telescope: Imaging Black Hole Vicinity

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Black Holes (Astronomy), Event Horizon, Radio Astronomy, Telescopes, Very Long Base Interferometry, Imaging Techniques, Millimeter Waves, Sagittarius Constellation, Submillimeter Waves, Schwarzschild Metric

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The existence of a black hole in the universe has become very clear and is now common sense in astronomy. But the direct image of a black hole showing relativistic phenomena around the event horizon was still beyond our reach at the previous century because the sizes of black holes are too small to observe. Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) is the closest massive black hole at our galactic center. The Schwarzschild radius of SgrA* is about 6 (micro)arcseconds. Early in the 21st century developments of VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) techniques and millimeter and sub-millimeter radio astronomy will soon reach the point to make such observations of black holes possible. We here propose to construct a new VLBI array that should be named the (Event) Horizon Telescope.

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