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Michael Johnson

Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative SAO Astrophysicist
Institute for Theory and Computation
Astronomy

Biography

Michael Johnson is working to help create the first images of black holes with the Event Horizon Telescope. He is developing new EHT imaging algorithms, techniques to study the black hole’s magnetic field structure with polarimetry, and strategies to mitigate the effects of scattering in the ionized interstellar medium. 

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Honorary Affiliate: Stephen Hawking

In Memoriam

Former Honorary Affiliate

Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Physics

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