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I wonder if it's possible to look at this closer. By closer I mean something like the technology that was used to get that black hole pic at recognizable resolu
by praptak 3y ago
I wonder if it's possible to look at this closer. By closer I mean something like the technology that was used to get that black hole pic at recognizable resolution.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoEventually, probably; I hope in our lifetime we'll get solar system sized observatories from sattelite networks, like a few dozen James Webbs flying around and focusing on a single point, that kinda thing.
- bmitc 3y agoMy understanding is probably not. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) used to image the supermassive black holes has an aperture the size of the Earth. The objects they imaged are close and massive. And even then, they had to do funny sophisticated image resolving to get an image.
- getwiththeprog 3y agohttps://eventhorizontelescope.org/ https://eventhorizontelescope.org/ "The Event Horizon Telescope is an international collaboration capturing images of black holes using a virtual Earth-sized telescope"