In August 2015, I contributed to a Reddit AMA on the Event HorizonTelescope Project. We had a lot of fun answering hundreds of interesting questions in the course of one and a half hour.
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Press Release: Black Holes Come to the Big Screen
The new movie “Interstellar” explores a longstanding fascination, but we are using cutting-edge technology to go one better. We are working on how to take pictures of the black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Read our press release with videos and animations.
Event Horizon Telescope Conference in Tucson
Some of the press coverage of the “Event Horizon Telescope” conference I helped organize in January 2012:
- Science Magazine
- KOLD Tucson
- NY Daily News
- Daily Wildcat
Here is the Press Release for the conference.
Science News Article: Black Hole Silhouettes
Our work on testing the no-hair theorem is discussed in the cover article of Science News.
Science News Article: Capping the length of extra dimensions
Our work on constraining the sizes of large extra dimensions of the spacetime using astrophysical black holes is discussed in this article of Science News.