Post by sherlew99 on Apr 5, 2017 15:41:14 GMT -6
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Astronomers just turned on a planet-size telescope to take a picture of a black hole
Every image you’ve seen of a black hole is an illustration. A giant “virtual” telescope may change that.
Updated by Brian Resnick@B_resnick Apr 5, 2017, 1:10pm EDT
We’ve never seen a direct image of a black hole. But if an audacious experiment called the Event Horizon Telescope is successful, we’ll see one for the first time.
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The Event Horizon team is connecting radio telescopes at eight locations across the world — as far-flung as Hawaii and the South Pole — and instructing them all to look toward Sagittarius A for a few days. The network is the result of an international collaboration of 14 research institutions across the world.
Astronomers just turned on a planet-size telescope to take a picture of a black hole
Every image you’ve seen of a black hole is an illustration. A giant “virtual” telescope may change that.
Updated by Brian Resnick@B_resnick Apr 5, 2017, 1:10pm EDT
We’ve never seen a direct image of a black hole. But if an audacious experiment called the Event Horizon Telescope is successful, we’ll see one for the first time.
...
The Event Horizon team is connecting radio telescopes at eight locations across the world — as far-flung as Hawaii and the South Pole — and instructing them all to look toward Sagittarius A for a few days. The network is the result of an international collaboration of 14 research institutions across the world.
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