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BHI Fellows Reveal Strong Magnetic Fields Around the Supermassive Black Hole in M87
Two postdocs at the Black Hole Initiative, Freek Roelofs and Angelo Ricarte, have been involved in some groundbreaking results released today. Their measurements demonstrate the presence of spiraling light – or circular polarization – providing more conclusive evidence of strong magnetic fields around the supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87. The two papers […]
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BHI Scientists Honored for Work on Photon Ring
BHI Colleagues, Black Hole Enthusiasts! It is an enormous pleasure to report that Michael Johnson and Alex Lupsasca have been awarded the New Horizons Physics Breakthrough Prize for their extraordinary work on the photon ring – light trapped in orbit around black holes – and their work showing how they can be detected with future […]
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Hawai’i Researchers Make Surprising Discovery Regarding S-star Orbits
A Hawaiʻi discovery through and through. Dr. Devin Chu of Hilo, an astronomer with the UCLA Galactic Center Orbits Initiative, has been…
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Black Hole Symphony
Black Hole Symphony is a symphonic journey through spacetime, performed by a live chamber orchestra under the Planetarium dome.
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See the Sharp New Image of an Iconic Black Hole
A few weeks ago, researchers created a sharper portrait of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87—the first one that the Event Horizon Telescope imaged! Read the whole story behind this exciting discovery.
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May 29-31, 2024
Gutman Conference Center, Cambridge, MA USA
Crossing the horizons of Black Hole Studies from the perspective of Astrophysics, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, and History of Science. Featuring: Adam Levine, Alex Maloney, Ana-Maria Raclariu, Ben Freivogel, Bernard Carr, Chiara Mingarelli, Dennis Overbye, Emily Liepold, Hong Liu, Jamee Elder, John Mather, Julian Sonner, Kimberly Arcand, Manus Visser, Mina Himwich, Niels Martens, Phil Hopkins, Rafaella Margutti, Sara Issaoun, Stefan Hollands, Surya Raghavendran, Thomas Ryckman, Tiziana di Matteo, Yambe Tam, and Robert Wald
