We got two images of supermassive black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope. But can we make it better? How can we take the telescope to the next level and resolve a photon ring of a black hole? Finding out with Ben Hudson, System Engineer from KISPE Space.

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• 00:00 Intro

• 01:50 What is a photon ring

• 04:56 Structure around black holes

• 08:36 How can we resolve the photon ring

• 12:51 Making the Event Horizon Telescope bigger

• 44:28 What can we learn from the photon ring

• 53:10 Final thoughts and more interviews

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