Virtual: Telescope

In 2019, the EHT collaboration captured the first direct image of a black hole in the M87 galaxy, a feat requiring magnification equivalent to reading a text on a phone in New York from a sidewalk café in Paris.

Specialized supercomputers called correlators mathematically weed out noise and combine data streams from disparate locations to create a high-resolution final image. 2. The Virtual Observatory (VO): A Digital Universe Virtual telescope

The most powerful "virtual telescopes" are created through . By synchronizing multiple radio telescopes across continents, scientists create a virtual dish as large as the distance between them. In 2019, the EHT collaboration captured the first