Virtual telescope makes first image of a black hole

by Eric Bogers @ elektormagazine.com discuss about a new project that aims to create the first image of a black hole. He writes:

A powerful network of radio telescopes, spread around our planet, attempts for the first time to create an image of a black hole. Black holes are intangible gravitational ‘vanishing holes’, the existence if which was already predicted in 1915 by Albert Einstein. The South Pole Telescope of the University of Chicago is part of this Event Horizon Telescope, in which eight observatories, spread across six widely dispersed locations, together form a single virtual telescope, which is so powerful (has sufficiently great resolving power) that it could detect a penny on the surface of the moon.

Virtual telescope makes first image of a black hole – [Link]

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