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Press conference at ESO on groundbreaking new Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

You can watch the press conference live on ESO page, or on ESO's YouTube channel.
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) will host a press conference on groundbreaking new Milky Way results from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT).

Researchers Tuomas Savolainen, senior scientist at the Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan from Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory and Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO and Kaj Wiik, Senior Research Fellow at Tuorla Observatory and University of Turku were part of the international research group.

You can watch the press conference live on this site:
https://www.eso.org/public/live/

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