Event Horizon Telescope
Black Holes: Photographing the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
Since 2015, Western Digital has been supporting the Event Horizon Telescope, a groundbreaking virtual telescope observing and imaging black holes. Almost every image we’ve seen of a black hole isn’t an image at all. It is an illustration of what we think black holes look like, based on mathematical theory and fairly recent evidence that […]
August 2, 2022 • 8 min read Data
What Does Helium Have to Do with the Black Hole Image?
In 2015, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project shared they would be using our (then HGST branded) Ultrastar® HelioSeal® hard disk drives (HDDs) to store the captured imaging data for the supermassive black hole.
April 11, 2019 • 5 min read Data