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Event Horizon Telescope

Ground-based · 2017 · Global array, Spain to the South Pole

Type
Ground-based
Location
Global array, Spain to the South Pole
Founded
2017

Notes

Not one telescope but eight, combined by atomic clocks into an aperture the size of the Earth. It is the only way to resolve something as small on the sky as M87's shadow.

Discoveries [DB]

Referenced by

discovery

Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

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