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The 1st Milky Way black hole image was groundbreaking — the next could be even better

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The Event Horizon Telescope ( EHT ) has achieved its finest resolution yet.

The EHT works on the principle of "very long baseline interferometry," or VLBI.

The network of radio telescopes across the world operate in unison to image supermassive black holes.

The accomplishment could lead to images of the ring of light around a black hole's event horizon being 50% sharper.

The European Southern Observatory has been able to observe black holes at 0.87mm .

The greater resolution won't just sharpen the image of the photon ring around each black hole, but also more precisely depict their shape and size.

The next generation EHT is expected to increase the sharpness and clarity of black hole images by a factor of 10 .

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