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The thought struck me that the interferometry technique used must have gathered data from a much wider field of view than of just the black hole. Burried in th
by pontifier 8y ago
The thought struck me that the interferometry technique used must have gathered data from a much wider field of view than of just the black hole.
Burried in that 5 petabytes of data is likely a scan of a much larger field of view at a similar resolution.
- petschge 8y agoYes. But since you have a bright spot in the center of the larger image and you only have a limited number of baseline between pairs of telescopes there will be all kinds of artefacts in the outer portion of that large image. So it get's cropped away. (Most of it is actually never even computed).
- pontifier 8y agoI still think it would be worth pursuing. I hope the raw data will be made available at some point... Not that I have 5 petabytes free space available right now...