The Latest from the BHI
New insights about Oumuamua
Thoughts about Oumuamua https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-approach-the-problem-of-oumuamua/
Read MoreIs ‘Oumuamua a Light Sail?
Is ‘Oumuamua a Light Sail? Featuring Dr. Avi Loeb
Read MoreMeasuring the Age of the Universe
Hsin-Yu Chen (BHI Research Fellow) is published in Nature
Read MoreNew York Times; “How do you take a picture of a Black Hole?”
New York Times article from Sunday October 7, 2018 on Black Holes and the Event Horizon Telescope.
Read MorePresident Bacow discusses LIGO on eve of Inauguration
“GAZETTE: Looking ahead, what do you see as the biggest opportunities, the biggest challenges? BACOW: … The intellectual opportunities are also great. We are creating new tools which allow us to answer questions people have never been able to answer in the history of mankind. Whether we’re talking about CRISPR technology, which allows us to edit genes […]
Read MoreAvi Loeb speaks to Full House about Breakthrough Starshot
Lecture on “Search for Primitive and Intelligent Life on Other Planets.”
Read MoreFabio Pacucci discusses Black Holes on TED-Ed talks
“To end this short story, it is worth mentioning that now there is even an institute dedicated exclusively to the study of these objects, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University. The BHI is an interdisciplinary center involving a collaboration between scientists from the fields of Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy, the first center […]
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Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?
Hsin-Yu Chen’s (Postdoc at the BHI) work appears on front page of MIT’s news with co researcher Salvatore Vitale, assistant professor of physics at MIT.
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Black hole blasts may transform ‘mini-Neptunes’ into rocky worlds
BHI Director, Avi Loeb and Collaborator, John Forbes are featured in the Harvard Gazette highlighting a collaboration with Howard Chen from Northwestern University on research predicting that Neptune-like planets located near the center of the Milky Way were transformed into rocky planets by outbursts generated by the nearby supermassive black hole. Link: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/black-hole-blasts-may-transform-mini-neptunes-into-rocky-worlds/
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BHI Director, Avi Loeb, and BHI Fellow, Maciek Wielgus, are featured in Harvard Crimson’s, “Astronomers Discuss Black Holes, Cosmic Radiation at Luncheon”
Link: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/2/2/astrophysics-luncheon-talk/
Read MoreBeyond the Horizon. Join us for the 6th Annual Black Hole Initiative Conference.
May 17-19, 2023
Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge, MA USA
Crossing the horizons of Black Hole Studies from the perspective of Astrophysics, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, and History of Science. Featuring: Alejandro Castro, Andrew Cristofoli, Andrea Puhm, Andrew MacFayden, Ann C. Thresher, Caitlin Witt, Chris Akers, Daniel Harlow, Elena Giorgi, Eleni Kontou, Erin Kara, Jan Sbierski, Jeremy Butterfield, Jessica Lu, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Laura Cadonati, Lorenzo Sironi, Lynn Grimwell, Michael Johnson, Natalie Paquette, Roland Bittleston, Smander Naoz, Suvi Gezari, Vijay Balasubramanian, and more!
