The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) international joint research team, made up of researchers from the United States, Europe, Japan, South America and Africa, including Korea, has captured images of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* located at the center of the our galaxy on the 12th announced. Provided by EHT
An international joint research team at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), made up of researchers from the United States, Europe, Japan, South America and Africa, unveiled the image of the black hole Sagittarius A at the center of our galaxy in May . This is valuable data that will be used to reveal the secret of the formation of the universe, one of the greatest challenges of astrophysics. Korea has played a role in verifying the observation data.
On the 28th, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute announced that it had selected “capturing the black hole at the center of the Milky Way” as the top 10 news of the year. The astronomical research institute said, “From the 21st to the 29th of last month, we conducted a vote on the top 10 news to define this year’s findings and issues and to expand public interest and build on the latest trends.” of research and astronomy and space science matters.” 185 executives and employees took part in the vote.
Second place was hosting the 31st Congress of the International Astronomical Union (IAU GA). The event, called the Astronomy Olympiad, was held in South Korea from August 2 to 11. 1700 academic presentations were given in 205 sessions and approximately 1900 astronomers attended.
Third place is the development of performance test equipment for the ‘SPHEREx’ space telescope. SphereX is an infrared space telescope capable of taking pictures of the entire universe. The test equipment of the astronomy laboratory measures the realization of the space environment in a state of cryogenic vacuum, the alignment of the telescope focal plane and the spectroscopic performance. SphereX is scheduled to launch in April 2025.
Fourth place is the result of capturing light from a supernova by the KMTNet telescope. KMTnet is an astronomical observation network independently established by the Astronomical Research Institute at three astronomical observatories in Chile, South Africa and Australia in 2015 to find the “second Earth”. Cheonmunyeon’s research team captured light from the supernova within an hour of the explosion using KMTNet. It is expected to contribute to the study of stellar evolution.
Later, three sets of ultra-small 3-channel receiving system were exported to the National Astrophysical Center in Italy, successful free curve telescope test observations and dedicated dome development, Chilean KMTNet observatory discovered 30 astronomical objects at the outside Neptune and “space objects” that managed to accurately predict the crash of the wreckage of the 5B rocket. The flight dynamics system and the signing of a technology transfer contract with Hanwha Systems were named one after the other in the charts.
