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China's 1st homegrown submillimeter wave telescope begins construction

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China on Saturday launched the construction of a new large astronomical observation project, the Xueshanmuchang 15-meter SubMillimeter Telescope (XSMT). As China's first self-developed advanced submillimeter wave telescope, the XSMT is expected, once completed, to join the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth-sized virtual telescope network, contributing to the capture of dynamic images of black holes.

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