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Short description
First Image of a Black Hole
Subject
Space Exploration
Title
Scientists Reveal the First Picture of a Black Hole
Full description or Story
It takes some cameras and telescopes with powerful and sophisticated lenses to capture an image of this distant black hole.
That's just one part of it. The image then has to be transmitted through space back to Earth through a network of computers that are running code.
Location
Third Period / center of M87, a galaxy 54 million light-years away
Date
May 5, 2021
Author
post by Sarah Poyet in BASE 9th grade Third Period
Source or Provenance
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Et Al. / https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-reveal-the-first-picture-of-a-black-hole/
Tags
optics
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imaging technology
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supermassive black hole
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Event Horizon Telescope
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science
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space exploration
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M87
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black hole
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space
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Created on 2021-05-05 at 15:40 and last updated on 2021-05-05 at 15:46.