10-04-2018, 05:33 PM
The Event Horizen Telescope consists of not a single observatory, but multiple radio telescopes around the world, operating concurrently, in an attempt to emulate a virtual telescope the size of the Earth, which will take the first ever photograph of a black hole.
They spent a couple weeks on Mauna Kea, installing and testing borrowed equipment and waiting on the weather. On clear nights they’d stay up from well before dusk until after dawn, when they’d pack hard drives filled with billions of numbers representing noise and cosmic signal into foam crates. They’d draw straws to decide who had to drive the crates down to Hilo and FedEx them back to Haystack for correlation. At the end of the run, they dismantled their equipment and shipped it back East.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
They spent a couple weeks on Mauna Kea, installing and testing borrowed equipment and waiting on the weather. On clear nights they’d stay up from well before dusk until after dawn, when they’d pack hard drives filled with billions of numbers representing noise and cosmic signal into foam crates. They’d draw straws to decide who had to drive the crates down to Hilo and FedEx them back to Haystack for correlation. At the end of the run, they dismantled their equipment and shipped it back East.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/magazine/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-as-big-as-the-earth.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
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