| CHINA CONTRIBUTION A team of more than 200 scientists including Chinese astronomers worked to capture and develop the image, according to EHT. Marrone told Xinhua after the press conference that China made direct contribution to the observations and data analysis as well, which are important work. Doeleman recalled how he worked with Chinese researchers to build data-analyzing algorithms, to de-blur the image and to contribute to the VLBI technique. China is also helping greatly with the East Asian Observatory to run the James Clerk Maxwell telescope in Hawaii, making "very, very important" contribution, according to him. Sera Markoff, a member of EHT Science Council and a professor at the University of Amsterdam, told Xinhua that she expected to have a Chinese telescope included into the EHT network, since "China is investing an enormous amount of money into new telescope facilities." Doeleman revealed that EHT may include a space telescope into its network and China's a potential partner, and "we've already been talking a little bit with China" about "taking antennas into space." "Breakthroughs in technology and the completion of new radio telescopes over the past decade enabled our team to assemble this new instrument, designed to see the unseeable," said Doeleman. | 
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