Highest-resolution black hole images ever taken usher in a new era
Highest-resolution black hole images ever taken usher in a new era
www.earth.com Highest-resolution black hole images ever taken usher in a new era
The Event Horizon Telescope team achieves unprecedented resolution and opens new windows to supermassive black hole studies.
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Could you use this to take a picture of an exo planet?
Also, who will we send in first? How about the orange man so we can get some data on redshift.
Well, 13 microarcseconds is the resolution they claim to be shooting for. The nearest star is 4.2 light-years away. 13 microarcseconds at 4.2 light-years is 2500km, the earth is about 12742 km in diameter. So we can theoretically take an approximately 5x5 pixel image of Proxima Centauri b.
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