NSF press conference on first result from Event Horizon Telescope project

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The first results of imaging the black hole at the Galactic center will be announced by a group of individuals that includes Sera Markoff, my former graduate student here in Physics, now a Professor at the University of Amsterdam. The concept behind this work, creating the Event Horizon Telescope, was developed by my group here in our department 20 years ago, with the participation of several students including Sera. 

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