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Event Horizon Telescope
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Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
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Lunar-based ultraviolet telescope
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope.
Detailed explanation-2: -X-ray-detecting telescopes such as NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory can image the material spiraling into a black hole, revealing the black hole’s location. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can measure the speed of the gas and stars orbiting a point in space that may be a black hole.
Detailed explanation-3: -In simultaneous press conferences across the globe, astronomers have revealed the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: Sagittarius A*.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope made history by releasing the first ever image of a black hole M87* – the black hole at the centre of a galaxy Messier 87, which is a supergiant elliptic galaxy.