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PBS documentary segment on the Event Horizon Telescope observations, filmed at our telescope in Hawaii.

https://www.pbs.org/video/it-takes-a-vi ... le-khzojs/

dyqik wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:41 pm

PBS documentary segment on the Event Horizon Telescope observations, filmed at our telescope in Hawaii.

https://www.pbs.org/video/it-takes-a-vi ... le-khzojs/

Nice, I shall watch that later.

I gave a talk to our Astro Society about the 1919 Eclipse and its role in the proof of General Relativity, and included a section on the EHT imaging of the M87 Black Hole

This gives a sense of the imaging resolution - the inset in the top image would be about 0.6 mm at arms length.

While the resolution at the bottom is about 0.6 mm at a distance equal to the radius of the earth. Or the distance between London and Chicago.

dyqik wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:16 pm

While the resolution at the bottom is about 0.6 mm at a distance equal to the radius of the earth. Or the distance between London and New York.

In some ways we're f.cking clever for an ape!