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How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

Quanta Magazine has published an explainer on how astronomers photograph black holes, a feat requiring telescope networks spanning the globe and combining their data to achieve Earth-sized resolving power. The piece walks through the techniques behind images such as those of M87 and the Milky Way's Sagittarius A*, and readers are discussing the imaging methods and the physics involved.

Why now: A new Quanta explainer on black hole imaging has drawn strong interest from science readers.

Quanta MagazineEvent Horizon Telescopeblack holesSagittarius A*M87

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