News

2023 Apr: Press Releases: Astronomers image for the first time the accretion flow together with a powerful jet of the M87 supermassive black hole
2022 Dec: Award: Drs. Cristina Romero-Canizales and Jun Yi (Kevin) Koay have won the EHT 2022 Early Career Award
2022 May: Press Releases: Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
2022 May: ASIAA Thanks Canon Taiwan
2022 Mar/Apr: GLT participated for EHT/GMVA observations
2021 Oct: Award: Dr. Jongho Park has won the EHT 2021 Early Career Award
2021 Apr: GLT team conduct remote observations for EHT/GMVA observations
2021 Mar: Press Releases: Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
2021 Jan: Award: The EHT is awarded the 2021 Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Group Achievement Award

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Greenland Telescope (GLT) Antenna Re-Assembly Finished more science results

Greenland Telescope (GLT) Astronomical First Light more science results

Joined the EHT Observation for the First Time more science results

The First Black Hole Shadow Image more science results

First Polarization Image around the Black Hole Shadow more science results

First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy more science results

Project Description

on VLBI group at ASIAA

With the addition of new staff members, a new effort has been launched to perform frontier Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) studies. VLBI has been dedicated in pursuit of high angular resolution. Our group, collabrating with international partners, is conducting the exciting projects, which will achieve the resolution of tens of micro arcseconds: Submillimeter VLBI. By direct imaging toward the super massive black holes (SMBHs) at center of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) with this extremely high angular resolution, we will investigate the physics at ultimate state under the relativity. Tentative goals of this group would be to (1) image the shadow of SMBH itself and (2) image the inner most part of the jet and accretion disk. The former would be a direct proof of the existence of SMBH, and essential to determine the mass and spin parameter of SMBH. The latter would be important to investigate the launching mechanisms of the ultra-relativistic jet.

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