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Space-Based Laser TBIRD to Enable Photon Ring Imaging

December 13, 2024

TBIRD, a laser communications system developed by Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data at unprecedented speeds, enabling scientists to capture black holes’ elusive photon rings. The Event Horizon Telescope network captured groundbreaking images of a black...

BHEX and NSF NRAO Agree to Collaborate on Investigating Supermassive Black Holes

December 12, 2024

A new agreement between the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) will help the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) take its next steps – into space. The...

Trading Zone 2025 is Talbot Rice Gallery's interdisciplinary student exhibition

December 05, 2024

Emily Beaney, Ross Dickson, Victoria Evans, Emilie Fielding, Keziah Greenwood, Inaya Hussain, Hanayo Kubota, Rita Mahfouz, Eilidh McKeown, Maria Schiza, Wenqi Zou Trading Zone – a term coined by historian of science Peter Galison to describe how different...

EHT scientists make highest-resolution observations yet from the surface of Earth

August 27, 2024

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other facilities, that achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth [1]. They...

Gluck-Thaler is named the 2024-2025 Tomash Fellow

May 09, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (5/9/24)—We are delighted to announce that Aaron Gluck-Thaler has been awarded the 2024-2025 Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellowship for his dissertation project, “The Pattern Recognizers: Surveillance, Security, and the Making of...

Stories from the Eclipse

April 02, 2024

Our April Issue "Stories from the Eclipse" is a celestial canvas of the Science New Wave. As North America witnesses the mesmerizing eclipse on April 8th, this film program showcases over 50 bodies of works of all shapes, each an exploration of shadows...