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Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by jcims on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:10AM (#19672927)
This is why you aren't likely to be doing VLBI in the visible light spectrum any time soon. Your wavelength is three orders of magnitude smaller, so the equipment you use to capture phase information has to be three orders of magnitude faster and the correlation is likely to require at at least three orders of magnitude more capacity.
Re:Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? by RedOrGreen on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:39AM (#19674587)
Yes, we're not going to do optical VLBI soon, but the reason is deeper... I just wrote out a long comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674563