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18 | 18 | called very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI), has an angular resolution of
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19 | 19 | <a href=https://eventhorizontelescope.org/press-release-april-10-2019-astronomers-capture-first-image-black-hole>20 micro-arcseconds</a> — enough to read a newspaper in New York
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