More than 200 years later, another iconic image was born, Doeleman continued, then another and another. All of a sudden something that was invisible to us became real, and it changed the way we thought about our lives." "The microscopic world became real for us. "In 1655, there was an image that startled people: It was the first drawing of a flea, by Hooke," he said. (Doeleman demurred to offer any details, but said he expected the next release within a year.)īut perhaps the most powerful moment of the hearing came toward the end, when Haley Stevens, D-Mich., asked the team to offer a bit of poetic advice about how not to get lost in a black hole, and Doeleman rose to the challenge. "I don't want to do that again, so can you give us a little hint - you mentioned that you're going to be able to now tune this on the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, when should we be tuning in for that?"
"I learned a valuable lesson I hope not to repeat last week, which is that if you miss an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' you find out a couple days later that apparently it all ends with dragons," Sean Casten, D-Ill., said during one of the lighter moments of the hearing. Related: The Best Space Photos Ever: Astronauts & Scientists Weigh in We wanted to be able to tell our story, the scientific story, after peer-reviewed publication of our results, so that's a key part of it."īut of course, the Event Horizon Telescope team doesn't intend to stop its work any time soon, and the representatives wanted to know what would come next.
"We had 200 people from around the globe and nobody broke the code, nobody broke the silence, and I think it's because we all understood the impact that it would have. " bound by a common science vision, it really helps when you want to prevent a leak," Doeleman said. The testimony also offered insight into why the image's release was such a dramatic moment - the team was able to keep the details of the announcement, particularly which black hole had been imaged, under wraps until the coordinated news conferences.
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