The initial part of my presentation will concentrate on the discipline of X-ray Interferometry and how it is possible to image at resolutions a million times finer than the limit of the Hubble Space Telescope. This will be followed by a general discussion of what new science MAXIM (the Microarcsecond X-ray Imaging Mission) can address with such a large improvement of resolution. But the driving motivation behind the technological development is the possibility of imaging the event horizons in Active Galactic Nuclei. I will show some simulations of the x-ray environment in close to AGN's and discuss the concerns and limitations of the instrument. I will present some of the experiments that can be performed in such a "laboratory". Can the results be used to perform definitive tests of General Relativity? This question so far has remained unanswered and can be discussed in the workshop.
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