June 14, 2024
Author(s)
Daniel P. Marrone, Janice Houston, Kazunori Akiyama, Bryan Bilyeu, Don Boroson, Paul Grimes, Kari Haworth, Robert Lehmensiek, Eliad Peretz, Hannah Rana, Laura Sinclair, Sridharan Tirupati Kumara, Ranjani Srinivasan, Edward Tong, Jade Wang, Jonathan Weintroub, Michael D. Johnson
The Black Hole Explorer (BHEX) is a space very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) mission concept that is currently under development. BHEX will study supermassive black holes at unprecedented resolution, isolating the signature of the "photon ring" —