What do you get when you combine 15 radio telescopes on Earth and one in space? You get an enormous "virtual telescope" that is 63,000 miles across. And when you point it at a distant black hole, you get the highest resolution image every seen in astronomy. Although it looks just like a big green blob, it's actually an enormously energetic jet of matter streaming out of a black hole. And this black hole is 900 million light years away. As reported at Popular Science, it required an array of 15 r...
What do you get when you combine 15 radio telescopes on Earth and one in space? You get an enormous "virtual telescope" that is 63,000 miles across. And when you point it at a distant black hole, you get the highest resolution image every seen in astronomy. Although it looks just like a big green blob, it's actually an enormously energetic jet of matter streaming out of a black hole. And this black hole is 900 million light years away. As reported at Popular Science, it required an array of 15 r...
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