A press conference on Milky Way galaxy discovery from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration is held in Washington,D.C.

The U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) chief operating officer Karen Marrongelle delivers opening remarks. The panel of EHT researchers, Katherine (Katie) L. Bouman, assistant professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Astronomy at Caltech, Vincent Fish, research scientist at MIT Haystack Observatory, Michael Johnson, astrophysicist at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and Feryal Özel, professor of astronomy and physics at University of Arizona attend the press and answer questions from the media.