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I hope they also approved the construction of the supercomputer to work on the images!

Some of the radio interferometer telescopes actually do require some of the most powerful supercomputers ever built, just to assemble their "images". E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOFAR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

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