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The first image of a black hole was made by turning Earth itself into a kind of telescope.

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The Event Horizon Telescope linked radio observatories across the planet to see the shadow of the black hole in galaxy M87. It was less a single camera than a global act of precision and patience.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Bir kara deliğin ilk görüntüsü, Dünya'nın kendisini bir tür teleskopa dönüştürerek üretildi.

Event Horizon Telescope, gezegenin farklı yerlerindeki radyo gözlemevlerini birleştirerek M87 galaksisindeki kara deliğin gölgesini gördü. Bu tek bir kamera değil; küresel ölçekte sabır ve hassasiyet isteyen ortak bir bakıştı.

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Event Horizon Telescope; NSF. Sources: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/press-release-april-10-2019-astronomers-capture-first-image-black-hole ; https://www.nsf.gov/news/media-toolkits/event-horizon-telescope

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