National Science Foundation: "Planet-sized 'virtual telescope' expands to the South Pole to observe black holes in detail"

April 21, 2015
The South Pole Telescope.
The South Pole Telescope. Credit: John Mallon III, National Science Foundation

"Astronomers building a globe-spanning virtual telescope capable of photographing the "event horizon" of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way have extended their instrument to incorporate the South Pole Telescope (SPT), a 280-ton radio telescope located at the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica"

News release from National Science Foundation

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