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Harvard’s BHI is Funded for Three More Years

The John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation have funded the Black Hole Initiative for an additional three year term, until September 2022. This new funding of $7.2 million rewards a success story, leading to a graduate student program on black holes at Harvard University and more than a hundred interdisciplinary papers […]

Harvard’s BHI is Funded for Three More Years by the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

It is our great pleasure to announce that thanks to the generosity shared by the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the funding of the BHI has been extended for an additional three years term, until September 2022. This new funding of $7.2M rewards a success story, leading to a graduate student program on black […]

Third Annual BHI Conference Videos Online!

Videos of all of the talks of the Third Annual BHI Conference (May 20-22 2019) are online! Please follow this link to watch them all. For each session there is a file of the complete panel from start to finish and then individual files for each presentation. Link to the video catalog

Can a Black Hole be Destroyed? A Ted-Ed video by Fabio Pacucci

Learn from the Scientists who worked on the EHT project

Congratulations to Andrew Chael

Andrew Chael (Physics department; supervised by Ramesh Narayan)who will be defending his dissertation this month has been chosen to receive this year’s Eric Keto Prize, which is awarded annually for the best PhD thesis in theoretical astrophysics at Harvard University. The prize was enabled through a generous donation by senior member of the CFA, Eric […]

First Event Horizon Results Shared with the world April 10, 2019 0900

On April 10, 2019 at 9:00 am there will be a NSF sponsored press conference on the historic findings from the EHT research group. https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298155&org=NSF&from=news https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/4/11/black-hole-image/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/harvard-scientists-lead-team-revealing-black-hole/ https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/world/black-hole-photo-scn/index.html https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-first-picture-event-horizon-telescope https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711723383/watch-earth-gets-its-first-look-at-a-black-hole

Professor Avi Loeb: Boston Globe April 3, 2019

“Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe” Dr. Andy Strominger and Dr. Malcolm Perry

https://www.space.com/unlocking-the-universe-einstein-hawking-documentary.html

“Could the Earth be Swallowed by a Black Hole?” by Fabio Pacucci

How the Universe Remembers Information: Professor Andy Strominger

http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/how-the-universe-remembers-information

Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis at Harvard Book Store

Black Hole Essays published weekly on Nautilus Magazine starting 23 January 2019

http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/the-strangeness-of-black-holes

More than 100 internationally renowned mathematicians in China gathered together in Jiaoling to discuss the development of Calabi Yau theory for 40 years.

Please click on link and then click on button “Read More” to see story. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eFEdnuZ-TD9WWDL-p5lDFA