The Event Horizon Telescope (see here for a nice article about the project) just triggered it’s first 2017 observation, the first ever with phased ALMA at its core, as well as several other facilities across the globe of the Earth!! Tonight we’ll be observing the tiniest scales ever seen before in “Track D”, which means the supermassive black holes and jets of systems: 3C279, M87, and OJ 287 (which may even have two black holes)!! We also have a ton of great multiwavelength coverage. I’m super excited, wish us luck that the weather holds, and we get good data!!
