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 […]
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EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole (SXSW 2019 Panel)
EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole (SXSW 2019 Panel) Recording of a series of 4 presentations and a Question & Answer session from the panel named “EHT: A Planetary Effort to Photograph a Black Hole” at the 2019 SXSW festival that took place on March 8–17, 2019 in Austin, Texas, USA. Speakers. […]
Leaders Driving Change at SXSW part 2 “Photographing a Black Hole” Podcast with Dimitrios Psaltis
By Tyler KernMarch 14, 2019 PHOTOGRAPHING A BLACK HOLE Black holes do not let light escape, according to University of Arizona professor Dimitrios Psaltis, so how does a camera get a photo of one? This is the challenge for Psaltis and the team at Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a project designed to create an Earth-sized telescope network […]
Scientific American Article: The Black Hole Test
I had the privilege to coauthor with Shep Doeleman an article on testing General Relativity with the Event Horizon Telescope, that was published in the special September 2015 Scientific American issue on the 100 years of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Reddit AMA on the Event Horizon Telescope Project
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.