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More than 400 researchers from 13 institutions, including the NAOJ, constitute the EHT's international consortium, which operates a growing network of telescopes around the world to form one virtual, Earth-sized telescope using a technique called Very Long Baseline interferometry. Two EHT scientiststhat gaps in data were expected due to EHT operating just eight telescopes in six locations around the world.
"Each algorithm has its own method for determining which image is most likely," said Bouman."It is a bit like hiring Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple and Jules Maigret simultaneously to see what they commonly conclude and what they don't."
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