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Listen: Avi Loeb joined the John Batchelor Show to discuss black holes.

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The BHI would like to congratulate Andy Strominger and Cumrun Vafa for winning the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their pioneering work on black holes.

The BHI would like to congratulate Andy Strominger and Cumrun Vafa for winning the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their pioneering work on black holes. We are so privileged to have them at Harvard! I just returned from Palo Alto, where the prize ceremony took place in the company of celebrities and other luminaries in […]

Listen: Shep Doeleman joined Janna Levin and Matt Kirshen to discuss black holes on StarTalk Radio.

StarTalk Radio · Hunting for Black Holes, with Janna Levin – StarTalk All-Stars

Read: BHI Director Avi Loeb’s Commentary in Nature, “Good Data Are Not Enough.”

Read: Andy Strominger featured in Discover Magazine article, “The Fall and Rise of String Theory.”

Smithsonian Magazine reported on the creation of the Black Hole Initiative

A new Harvard-Smithsonian initiative will delve into the places in the universe where spacetime sags around massive objects. View Article at Smithsonian.com

Read: The Harvard Gazette reported on the Black Hole Initiative’s inaugural event.

At packed Sanders Theatre, theoretical physicist and cosmologist tackles the contradictory qualities of black holes.  “If determinism — the predictability of the universe — breaks down in black holes, it could break down in other situations. Even worse, if determinism breaks down, we can’t be sure of our past history either. The history books and […]