The Event Horizon Telescope ( EHT ) made chronicle over the last several year by delivering the first images of the shadows oftwo supermassive black yap . The fuzzed orange tree luminescence might front out of focus , but it was a technical feat , requiring connect telescopes all around the surface of the planet to form a single instrumental role the sizing of the Earth . It had a resolution so gamy that in visual it would see a beigel on the surface of the Moon . Now , the team have it off how to agitate the resolution higher .

Combining telescope in Spain , Hawai’i , and Chile , including the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array ( ALMA ) , the team was able to measure signal in the universe at a frequency of 345 GHz . They consider that they can now ameliorate the precision of the supermassive pitch-black hole images by at least 50 percent .

" With the EHT , we saw the first range of a function of black holes by observe radio waves at 230 gigacycle per second , but the bright ring we saw , formed by light bending in the black fix ’s gravitational attraction still look blurry because we were at the downright demarcation line of how sharp we could make the images , " newspaper co - lead Alexander Raymond , from NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , said in astatement . " At 345 GHz , our images will be precipitous and more detailed , which in turn will likely reveal new belongings , both those that were previously predicted and mayhap some that were n’t . "

There is yet to be an image made with the approach tested here , as there weretoo few instrumentsto get something decent out . They could measure details 19 microarcseconds apart . That mean that you could see an physical object justslightly larger than a one-half dollaron the airfoil of the Moon . The discovery is so exciting , that the team is certain it will make for forth new discoveries .

" To read why this is a breakthrough , consider the burst of extra detail you get when going from sinister and white picture to colourize , " said theme carbon monoxide - lead Sheperd " Shep " Doeleman , an astrophysicist at the CfA and SAO , and Founding Director of the EHT . " This new ' coloring material sight ' allows us to twit apart the outcome of Einstein ’s gravity from the spicy accelerator and magnetic landing field that feed the black holes and set in motion powerful jets that rain buckets over galactic distance . "

A paper describing the resultant is publish inThe Astronomical Journal .