PIN-POINTING BLACK HOLES IN DISTANT GALAXIES

Upgraded European Network of Radio Telescopes has sharper vision than Hubble

CAPTION: The faintest radio sources ever detected using high resolution Very Long Baseline Interferometric techniques - EVN images of radio sources detected in the Hubble Deep Field. These images are overlayed upon a radio contour map of the region produced by the Westerbork Radio Telescope (yellow contours), which is itself superimposed upon a deep optical image of the HDF region made by the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (courtesy Amy Barger et al).

• Click on the image shown above for the full sized GIF image.

• The full text of the press release is also available (Click here for the Dutch translation).

• Some of the follow-up articles that have appeared in the media:
  Science; El Pais; (a leading Spanish Daily Newspaper); Astronomy and Spaceflight Now; SPACE.com; Astronomy leader page and main article; APOD.

• Composition and Contact details of the Scientific Team.

• Print quality PostScript files are also available in various sizes:

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• The full text of the paper (to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics) is available.

• Relevant links:

  
  

  Locations of the EVN telescopes that took part in the HDF observations. (Click on the picture shown above for the full sized picture).

  Click here for a PS version of this alternative image
  

  The EVN and JIVE Home Pages

  The Hubble Deep Field

  Westerbork Observations of the Hubble Deep Field