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Ben Turner

First-ever close-up of a supermassive black hole sharpened to 'full resolution' by AI, and the results are stunning

A sharpened up image of the black hole M87*, now captured at the fullest resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope.

The first-ever photo of a supermassive black hole has gotten a "maximum resolution" makeover, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). 

The iconic 2019 image of M87*, a solar system-size black hole in the center of the Virgo galaxy cluster, was made by pooling radio light that had traveled to us across 53 million light-years of space.

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