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#398: Imaging Black Holes with Python

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How to Pick a Single Image of a Black Hole?

It's really very hard to create images that don't look like what we have. And so no matter how much we tweaked our software, we would always end up with something very similar to the final image. The famous image of a black hole is actually just the average of the three software images, the three best images from the software. and this is also only one image of the black hole. This is only April 11. We observed M87 for four days in 2017,. They all look the same, and they all went through separate day observing kind of separate processing and always giving the same answer.

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