First developments of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI)

01/01/196501/01/1967
The technology that allowed us to get the first image of a black hole is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI. It was mainly developed through the efforts of separate teams, in the late 1960s. The article below is a brief review of the history of VLBI, written by one of the researchers involved in its development.A Review of the History of VLBI, by B. G. Clark (PDF)
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Very Long Baseline Interferometry

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