Interferometry technique
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Radio interferometry stretched across continents — antennas thousands of kilometres apart record the sky independently with precise atomic clocks, and the data are combined later. It achieves the finest angular resolution in all of astronomy; a global VLBI network imaged the shadow of a black hole.
Highlights
- ›The sharpest vision in astronomy — baselines the size of the Earth
Facilities, methods & instruments
Knowledge connections
- Associated withInterferometry
- Associated withRadio Interferometry
- Associated withRadio
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- ESOEuropean Southern Observatory
Southern-hemisphere observatory data and imagery (VLT, ALMA partner).