Major African radio telescope in Namibia will help to image black holes
The telescope will be located on or near Table Mountain in the Gamsberg Nature Reserve in Namibia. It will be a repurposed 15-metre telescope, currently located at La Silla in Chile, which is being donated by the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden and the European Southern Observatory, headquartered near Munich, Germany.
The telescope team is working to complete what is called a critical design review, which will help to determine the observatory’s exact location on the mountain, whether it needs to be adjacent to the mountain, or located at another site; and whether extra funding will be needed. “You have to have a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, in southern Africa, to make all those connections [to other telescopes in the network],” Klein Wolt says. “That would allow you to observe [the sky] as the Earth rotates,” he adds.
In the past two decades, telescopes have been set up across southern Africa. Countries with relatively clear skies and low population densities are ideal for astronomy. Telescopes there cover a wide range of wavelengths — from the optical Southern African Large Telescope and radio telescope MeerKAT in South Africa to the HESS telescope in Namibia.
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