UM touts contribution to historic black hole imaging
The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes is shown in this handout photo released April 10, 2019. — Event Horizon Telescope /National Science Foundation/Handout via Reuters
The university pointed out its participation in the East Asian Observatory that partnered with the EHT, which released yesterday the hithertoImaging of black holes had not previously been possible as their immense gravitational pull stopped any light from escaping, preventing conventional photography.
“This will definitely boost the role of Malaysian astronomy, which so far counts with the UPSI-UM 7-meter Radio Telescope in Tanjung Malim, Perak,” Zamri Zainal Abidin, investigator and Head of the Radio Cosmology Laboratory from UM’s Department of Physics, said.
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