Science is awesome: Blackhole telescope edition

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https://gizmodo.com/scientists-observe-black-widow-pulsar-in-mind-bogglin-1826266009

Holy zoom Batman!

Thats just a rendering down there, but they figured out how to get enough resolution to identify stuff just kilometers apart, god knows how many lightyears away.

Thanks to a quirk of astrophysics, astronomers were able to observe features just tens of kilometers apart near a spinning neutron star located 6,500 light-years away from Earth. This is like using a telescope in your backyard to see DNA strands on the moon.

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[MrDragster1970]

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You young guys are going to see amazing things during your life time!!!!!

I still can't believe I got to see Pluto.
All these years all I expected to know was it's a tiny blur billions of miles away.
Now in my life I got to actually see it, truly amazing!!!!!

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