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#398: Imaging Black Holes with Python

Talk Python To Me

The Event Horizon Telescope, a Planet Scale Telescope

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The Event Horizon Telescope is a planet scale telescope. We use a very clever trick that won the Nobel Prize back in the 70s and by Martin Ryle, who designed this technique. And what we do with our technique is we sync up telescopes that are at strategic locations around the earth. They have to observe at the exact same time. So about 10 years of buildings and we're still building. It came out on May 12, 2022. Two weeks after my pike on talk. Oh, it's timing. I mean, I just saw a whole bunch of news and cool pictures from JWST James Webb Space Telescope. Yeah.

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