20 May 2019
The 65 m Shanghai radia telescope 'Tianma' won the top prize at the 2018 Shanghai Science and Technology Awards on 15 May. Tianma has made significant contributions to astronomy for nearly a decade and participated in long-term observations used to confirm data in the first image of a black hole in deep space. While Tianma was not directly involved in the observations that led to the black hole image, its ability to see other phenomena in the universe on certain wavelengths, contributed to the precise calibration of the final data for the image.
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