They are, BTW, going to record 2 Petabytes of data per night, and then have to recombine it from 8 locations!
The Event Horizon Telescope has resolution sufficient to image the accretion disk of our galaxy's central black holehttp://www.nature.com/news/how-to-hunt-for-a-black-hole-with-a-telescope-the-size-of-earth-1.21693 …
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I love this about radio telescopes. That you do interference experiements by shipping hard drives. Much easier than optics!
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big data transfer: "The racks of hard disks containing the data will be flown to two central locations"
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