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Radio Telescopes on the Moon Could Let Us Observe Dozens of Black Hole Shadows


The resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope is limited by the diameter of Earth, and our observations of the black hole in M87 and in our own galaxy are at the edge of that limit. To observe other, more distant black holes we will need radio telescopes on the Moon.

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