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Keith Cooper

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

Striations are seen on a blurred glowing red-orange ring in space.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which is a collaboration of radio telescopes all around the world that operate in unison to image supermassive black holes, has achieved its finest resolution yet. In the future, this accomplishment could lead to images of the ring of light around a black hole's event horizon that are 50% sharper, resolving hitherto unseen details and producing movies of how the black holes change as they spin. 

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