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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is an international collaboration aiming to capture the first image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope. This short animated movie explains some of the nuts and bolts behind this ambitious endeavour. To learn more, visit the official EHT website, https://eventhorizontelescope.org. You can also find the EHT on Twitter -- https://twitter.com/ehtelescope -- and on Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/ehtelescope ! Credits: Animation: Chris Jones (https://www.chrisjonesanimation.com/) Screenplay: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sao/) Narration: Alex Hanson (https://alexhanson13.wordpress.com/) Funded by: National Science Foundation (https://www.nsf.gov/) Subtitles are translated to various languages by EHT scientists from all over the world. Currently available languages: Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, and Spanish. More are coming soon!