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News
- 2024 Jan
- Press Releases: New Images of M87*: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow
- 2024 Jan
- Award: Drs. Cristina Romero-Canizales and Jun Yi (Kevin) Koay have won the EHT 2023 Early Career Award
- 2023 Jun
- Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration Meeting Summer 2023
- 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
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.