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Clear Skies, with a Chance of Black Holes
The Event Horizon Telescope’s historic quest to image the “shadow” of a supermassive black hole is off to an auspicious start
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Astronomers Will Try to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole Next Year
If we survive the election, naturally
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Backstage for the Discovery of Gravitational Waves: An Interview with Janna Levin
The astrophysicist and author talks about her new book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
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Why You Should Be Excited about This Week's Big LIGO Announcement
It could mark the birth of a new kind of astronomy
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Stephen Hawking's New Black-Hole Paper, Translated: An Interview with Co-Author Andrew Strominger
The Harvard physicist explains the collaboration's long-awaited research on the black-hole information paradox
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Confirmed: Black Holes are Magnetism-Powered Eating Machines
The long list of unanswered questions about black holes contains one particularly surprising item: How do they eat? Unlike many of the riddles that black holes pose, this one seems so simple: What do you mean we don’t know how things fall into a black hole?...
The Sciences
Why Colliding Galaxies Never Go out of Style
The first theory proposed to explain the universe's strangest galaxies has had impressive staying power
Space & Physics
Finding "Fringes": New Event Horizon Telescope Detections Start Trickling In
The technique that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) use to observe black holes is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, but it might as well be called Extremely Delayed Gratification Astronomy: it can take weeks or months after an observing run to find out whether the telescope array actually saw anything...
Space & Physics
Building an Earth-Size Telescope, One Station at a Time
Imagine a trio of aerobatic aircraft. Over the years they've gotten very good at their routine. But they want to add another five or six or seven members.
Space & Physics
Hunting Black Holes at the South Pole
Each of the telescopes that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are currently working to bring into their black-hole-observing, planet-size array is a special case.
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