China has the world’s largest telescope, but why wasn’t it used to help capture the world’s first black hole pictures?

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South China Morning Post
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The 500-metre aperture spherical telescope in Guizhou province is the largest single radio dish on the planet, but was not designed to look at the signals that black holes emit

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