Black Hole Chasers

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In Black Hole Chasers, investigative journalist Anna Crowley Redding presents the true story of a scientific breakthrough—the Event Horizon Telescope team's reveal of the first image of a super massive black hole.In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Team unveiled the first ever image of a super massive black hole.This scientific breakthrough took years of hard work, innovative thinking, and a level of global cooperation never seen before. The challenge was immense. The goal was impossible. They would need a telescope as big as the earth itself. The technology simply didn’t exist. And yet, a multi-national team of scientists was able to show the world an image of something previously unseeable.