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: http://www.blackholefilm.com/
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. http://zoekeating.com/

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

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