Two Mauna Kea telescopes play role capturing in new black hole image

Observations from two Hawaii telescopes helped produce the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which was unveiled by astronomers this week. The image was produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, using observations from a worldwide network of radio telescopes, including the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Submillimeter Array, both of which are located near the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island. According…