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The '''Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope''' is a [[radio telescope]] in the [[Ahr Hills]] (part of the [[Eifel]]) in [[Bad Münstereifel]], [[Germany]]. For 29 years the Effelsberg Radio Telescope was the largest fully steerable radio telescope on Earth, surpassing the [[Lovell Telescope]] in the UK.<ref name="Ridpath2012">{{cite book|last=Ridpath|first=Ian|title=A Dictionary of Astronomy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O31j9UJ3U4oC&pg=PA139|year=2012|publisher=[[OUP Oxford]]|isbn=978-0-19-960905-5|page=139}}</ref> In 2000, it was surpassed by the [[Green Bank Observatory]]'s [[Green Bank Telescope|Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope]] in [[Green Bank, West Virginia|Green Bank]], US, which has a slightly larger elliptical 100 by 110-metre aperture.<ref>[http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2002/gbtpulsars/ Newly Commissioned Green Bank Telescope Bags New Pulsars], [[NRAO]], 2002-01-04</ref>
The telescope is part of the [[Event Horizon Telescope]], and in part made the first picture of a [[Supermassive black hole]]
== Geography ==
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