Sentences with phrase «same angular size»

Although M87 is around 2,000 times farther away from Earth than Sagittarius A *, it's more than 2,000 times more massive, so it will appear in the sky to the EHT as approximately the same angular size.

Not exact matches

«It's about 2,000 times more massive than the Milky Way's black hole, but it's also about 2,000 times farther away, so the angular size is the same,» making it another ideal target for the EHT.

Note that this effect of size on the perceived contrast can not be explained by the finite resolution of the visual system, because we used disks with angular diameter much larger than that of the Airy disk, and the effect was exactly the same for disks of the two different diameters we used.