Sheperd S. Doeleman is an Astrophysicist at theCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonianand FoundingDirector of theEvent Horizon Telescope(EHT), a synchronized global array of radio observatories designed to examine the nature of black holes. He is also a Harvard Senior Research Fellow and a Project Co-Leader of Harvard’s recently establishedBlack Hole Initiative(BHI). The BHI is a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary program at the University that brings together the disciplines of Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, and History of Scienceto define and establish black hole science as a new field of study. As one of thefounding members of the BHI, Doeleman leads a team studying supermassive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon itself. Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) methods, the EHT telescope networks observe astronomical radio sources at 1.3 millimeter (mm) wavelengths. These sources include the supermassive blac...