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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by princekolt on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:24AM (#19624920)
There is no lens. This was done using eight radio telescopes (or arrays) around the globe to create a "virtual" radio telescope which is effectively the size of the earth. After that the data of the individual telescopes was processed to produce an image.

There is some more info in the wikipedia article for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope

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Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video] by joering2 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:54PM (#19631031)
Thanks for the link. More reading reveals the amount of data produced goes into Petabytes. You can't just upload it to drop box or push it via FTP; hence correct icon of an airplane because those drives with data are indeed delivered by regular means of transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope#/media...

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