00:04When you close your eyes and picture a black hole, you might imagine something like this.
00:08A giant pitch black center with light bending as it moves over the event horizon.
00:12In actuality, these are the photos we have gotten of black holes so far.
00:16However, things might change soon.
00:18Experts are about to use an array of event horizon telescopes
00:21that includes observational points all over the globe.
00:23They say it will provide the highest resolution photos of black holes we've seen so far.
00:28Ones that could be 50% higher resolution than current ones.
00:31So, what will those look like?
00:33Well, they have now released some test images after pointing the incomplete array
00:36towards a couple of the closest black holes we know of.
00:39This is what they were able to produce when they directed the array at the M87 supermassive black hole
00:45that resides just 55 million light years away.
00:47And this is what they were able to simulate after pointing it at Sagittarius A,
00:51the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
00:55Both images were completed using simulated results,
00:57but they are a taste of what we can expect when the array is finished.
01:01Experts liken the jump in technology
01:03as the difference between black and white and color photography,
01:06saying the data that will be collected by the event horizon telescopes
01:09could let us finally better understand these cosmic mysteries.
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