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Ep. 632: Building Images: Optical vs Radio

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Radio Telescopes - What Is the Biggest Discovery?

An optical were were only seeing their star filled areas, but that black hole feeding in the centre is devouring massive amounts of material. fibre optics effectively has the ame travel distance from object to detector no matter where you put the telescopes. And youare mechanically combining the light from the different telescopes so that you're dealing with the same wave front hitting your detector from all ovr the scopes. It's kind of like focuss, when you think about an image as kind of blurry, and then you turn the focus wheel, and then it comes in gets sharper and sharper.

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