Cosmoview Episode 66: A Sharper Look at the First Image of a Black Hole

A team of researchers, including an astronomer with NSF’s NOIRLab, has developed a new machine-learning technique to enhance the fidelity and sharpness of radio interferometry images. To demonstrate the power of their new approach, which is called PRIMO, the team created a new, high-fidelity version of the iconic Event Horizon Telescope's image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a giant elliptical galaxy located 55 million light-years from Earth.

Credit:

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ESO/L. Calçada/M.Kornmesser, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration, L. Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Psaltis (Georgia Tech), T. Lauer (NSF’s NOIRLab), F. Ozel (Georgia Tech), N. Bartmann

Music: zero project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr)

 

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Release date:April 13, 2023, 4 a.m.
Related releases:noirlab2310
Duration:01 m 25 s
Frame rate:29.97

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