A Lunar Telescope Will Reveal the Shadows of Distant Black Holes ⚡ экспресс
The farther apart the antennas, the finer the details they pick up. By merging signals, astronomers effectively turn multiple dishes into a single telescope as big as the distance between them. Add a lunar antenna to the Earth-based array, and you get a virtual eye 384 000 km wide. It's like looking at the cosmos through the eyes of a giant, with pupils set an Earth–Moon span apart.
The real showstopper is the photon ring. This is an ultra-thin rim of light, forged by extreme spacetime curvature. To make it out, we'll need additional antennas drifting in the void between Earth and the Moon. Then black hole shadows will snap into sharp focus, letting us test gravity where it's pushed to its limits.
🎯 The system's angular resolution—0.7 microarcseconds—is like spotting an orange left on the Moon’s surface while standing on Earth.
🎬 Like in Interstellar, but even crisper: the lunar telescope promises to show black hole shadows with Hollywood-level detail.