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WESTFORD -- People around the world watched in awe Wednesday as scientists unveiled the first-ever images of a black hole, the center of a bright fiery ring in the darkness of space.

Those images were made possible, in large part, thanks to efforts and innovations made by staff over the years at MIT's Haystack Observatory in Westford, according to Vincent Fish, a research scientist at Haystack since 2007 and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Science Council.