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Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• It took a telescope the size of Earth to photograph something no camera could ever see

  In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration linked radio dishes across the planet into one virtual instrument and released the first-ever image of a black hole: a glowing ri…

  — Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results

• A planet-sized network of telescopes took the first-ever photo of a black hole's shadow

  In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, 55 million light-years away, built by linking…

  — Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results

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