APEX takes part in sharpest observation ever. Telescopes in
Chile, Hawaii, and Arizona reach sharpness two million times
finer than human vision. An international team of astronomers
has observed the heart of a distant quasar with unprecedented
sharpness, two million times finer than human vision. The
observations, made by connecting the Atacama Pathfinder
Experiment (APEX) telescope to two others on different
continents for the first time, is a crucial step towards the
dramatic scientific goal of the “Event Horizon Telescope”
project : imaging the supermassive black holes at the centre of
our own galaxy and others. Source: ESO Facebook Fan Page.