Portrait of a Shadow -- a short film by Peter Galison

Peter Galison, Director (2019), “Portrait of a Shadow.” Editor, Chyld King. A short film describing the decades-long struggle by the Event Horizon Telescope to produce the first image of a black hole. Coming soon—a feature film on black holes and the edge of what we know: Produced and Directed by Peter Galison Produced with the support of: The Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University John Templeton Foundation Featuring: Heino Falcke EHT Science Council Radboud University, Nijmegen NL Shep Doeleman EHT Director Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Feryal Ozel EHT Science Council University of Arizona Mareki Honma EHT Institutional Board National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Gopal Narayanan EHT Instrument Group University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dimitrios Psaltis EHT Project Scientist University of Arizona Katie Bouman EHT Imaging Group California Institute of Technology Michael Johnson EHT Imaging Group Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Sera Markoff EHT Science Council University of Amsterdam, NL Kazunori Akiyama EHT Imaging Group MIT Haystack Observatory Monika Moscibrodzka EHT Imaging Group Radboud University, Nijmegen NL Visual Materials: “Zooming into the black hole jet in M87,” NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Constellation Region of Galaxy M87 credit: A. Fujii; Galaxy M87 credit: R. Gendler; Hubble View of M87 Jet credit: NASA, ESA, E. Meyer, W. Sparks, J. Biretta, J. Anderson, S.T. Sohn, and R. van der Marel (STScI), C. Norman (Johns Hopkins University), and M. Nakamura (Academia Sinica), and G. Bacon (STScI); 23 August 2013 EHT Telescope locations animation Robert Pietrusko, Harvard Graduate School of Design “Forming the Black Hole Shadow“ Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (animators: Crazybridge Studios) “Sagittarius A* Shadow in 8k: Flying around a realistic black hole,” Z. Younsi, T. Bronzwaer & J. Davelaar for the Black Hole Cam (BHC) “M87_April_11_Clean_reconstruction,“ José Gómez, Event Horizon Telescope, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía Observed consensus images of M87 courtesy of Event Horizon Telescope Music: “Sun Will Set“ Written and performed by Zoë Keating, 020202 Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Editor/Co-Producer: Chyld King Associate Producer: Nicole Terrien Cinematographers: Stephen McCarthy Allie Humenick Hugh Campbell Sound Recordists: Steve Bores John O’Connor Don Nelson Production Assistant: Alex Morelli