Question number 4 from last week's homework (WS 4), really had me thinking. For starters, who doesn't find blackholes interesting?! Don't you?! I ended up realizing, as I'm sure the rest of you did, that building a telescope to resolve the event horizons is a difficult task. Then getting the telescope to be able to resolve both event horizons is another task.
I ended up writing a simulation in Mathematica to demonstrate how large of a diameter the mirror of the telescope would have to be to resolve both event horizons at the same wavelength.
In order to view and mess with the simulation, you will need to download the Wolfram CDF player. You can download it
here!
Here is a little preview...
Enjoy!
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