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Old 04-14-2019, 07:22 AM
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That's actually a very good question, TB.

According to what I found (seemingly had to use the horrible Wikipedia), the project first goes back to 1993, when Heino Falcke started investigating the possibilities of linking world-wide radiotelecopes, and had its first data capture in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
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