First direct image of a black hole

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The image is all over the 'net, but thought I'd also link to the papers, and the soon-to-happen Reddit AMA

You know shit's good when you need to correct for the drift of the polar ice cap so that the components of your radio telescope network (one of which is located in Antarctica) stay in sync and continue acting like a single giant radio telescope the size of the goddamn planet.