 Cheers to you, Event Horizon Telescope. Congratulations. So if you haven't heard, the big space news today is that the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first image, the first ever picture of a black hole. I'm a huge sucker for data visualization and nothing is more impactful than actually taking a picture of something and so to have a black hole that you can actually see the literal hole and it's black. It's great. This black hole in the nearby galaxy M87, this black hole is more than a billion times the mass of our sun. It's even bigger than the black hole in the center of our galaxy. So this is way outside of my wheelhouse other than appreciating a really amazing picture, appreciating the engineering and technical and software feats. So like everybody else, I'm just enjoying the picture and hearing the stories. Here is my Event Horizon Telescope story. About three years ago, in late 2016, I was visiting the Harvard Astronomy Department. I think I'd gone to New York, been home for 12 hours and then gone to Boston. And I was standing in this Airbnb and it was like a classic Cambridge three-story brick walk-up kind of thing. I stand in a lot of hotels and a lot of Airbnbs. But what made this one so memorable was unlike a lot of places that have been turned into like short-term rentals and have no soul, the owner made it her full-time job to basically be this like little innkeeper where she's got like four bedrooms or something. She's retired. She does art classes around town, hangs out around the university and then hosts mostly academics coming to stay for conferences. And so every morning there was like some toast and some coffee or like biscuits or something. It was like standing out a little in and it was awesome. And on the last day or two that I was staying there, I got to chatting with another gentleman. We realized that we were both next going to be walking over to Sixty Garden, walking over to the CFA and visiting astronomers. Total confession, I don't remember who it was. I've never met him before or since. But over coffee, over biscuits or something, he told me about this mission that I had never heard of called the Event Horizon Telescope, which is a global network of telescopes and they were going to use it to take an actual resolved picture of the center of our galaxy which is like basically the best conversation you can have with a blueberry scone. So then we had our coffee and we walked over to the astronomy department together and the next day I got on plane and flew to New York or something. So my message today on the AstroVlog is that yes, this image represents an incredible advance in technology and software and hardware and engineering. But it is also an incredible feat of human initiative. A team of people from around the world have worked together crossing political and social boundaries for years just to make this image and all of the discoveries around it possible. Science is a human endeavor and even among scientists it is often best shared with pastry and coffee. Cheers.