BHC: The Milky Way panorama

Today at 15:00 CEST, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project will hold a press conference at the the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters to present major results on the Milky Way.


The ESO Director General will open the press event. EHT Project Director Huib Jan van Langevelde and EHT Collaboration Board Founding Chair Anton Zensus will deliver speeches. A panel of EHT researchers will explain the result and answer questions. 


The conference will be streamed online on the ESO website and the ESO YouTube channel. There will be simultaneous press conferences organized around the world, including in Washington D.C., Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Tokyo, and Taipei.