Quanta podcast explains imaging black holes with radio telescopes
Original title: How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
Shep Doeleman describes the Event Horizon Telescope images of M87 and the Milky Way’s central black hole.
A Quanta Magazine episode of The Joy of Why interviews Harvard astrophysicist Shep Doeleman about photographing black holes. He and about 250 researchers linked radio telescopes worldwide as the Event Horizon Telescope, producing images of the supermassive black hole in M87 and the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The discussion also covers possible black-hole movies by the early 2030s. The item is astrophysics, not cybersecurity or AI.
From the original article
16 min read at quantamagazine.orgBlack holes are one of the universe’s most exotic and elusive objects. When nothing, not even light, can escape their powerful gravitational grasp, taking a picture of one seems unimaginable. But an image of a black hole, or more accurately its shadow, could offer insights that theory alone may not provide when testing predictions.
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