In October 2019, undergraduate student Dalton Glove and Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona) traveled to Thule, Greenland with Satoki Matsushita, Derek Kubo (ASIAA), and Nimesh Patel (SAO) to collect existing weather and radiometer data as well as install scripts to upload automatically future data on the online PIRE weather database. The ASIAA+SAO members focused on holographic measurements […]
Year: 2019
$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Black Hole Hunters Including UA Astrophysicists
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which included several University of Arizona researchers and students, received a prestigious award for producing the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes. By Daniel Stolte | University Communications | Sept. 5, 2019 Researchers from the University of Arizona are named in a […]
2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
WINNERS OF THE 2020 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS ANNOUNCED September 5, 2019 – (San Francisco) – The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors – Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki – today announced the recipients of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize […]
Public Lecture Series: Bringing Black Holes into Focus with the Event Horizon Telescope
Albert Einstein predicted the existence of black holes over a century ago when he developed the theory of general relativity. Today, his predictions are being tested through work being done to take the first-ever images of nearby black holes using an earth-sized telescope array, the Event Horizon Telescope. The Event Horizon Telescope shared groundbreaking results from […]
Arizona Celebrates with the World in Sharing the First Black Hole Image
Arizona members of the Event Horizon Telescope joined the National Science Foundation in revealing the first-ever image captured of the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. Arizona’s contribution to the EHT collaboration includes over 25 faculty, post docs, graduate students, and telescope operators. UA News Full Story Arizona Republic Story Join […]