If all goes well, as early as next year a virtual telescope with the sensitivity of an Earth -
sized radio dish will deliver images of a bright ring of hot gas surrounding a circular shadow: the heart of a black hole, bounded by the event horizon.
Not exact matches
With a
dish the
size of 30 football fields, it will be the largest
radio telescope in the world when it is completed in 2016.
Observations are also underway with a network of
radio dishes spread across the globe that form a telescope with a diameter comparable to the
size of the earth.