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Developing FPGA’s for High Speed Computational Power
The next generation of hardware for radio telescopes’ signal processing requires high-speed computing and data throughput capabilities. To achieve high-speed computation power, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are used. FPGAs contain millions of programmable...
Students Leading Development of New GRMHD Plasma Visualizations
Arizona graduate student, David Ball, is using the PIRE AR/VR Lab to develop virtual-reality visualizations of magnetohydrodynamic simulations of plasma around black holes. By learning the basics of graphics rendering on GPUs using algorithms called “shaders,” (found...
Cloud Computing Busy Week
In February, a five-day busy week was conducted at the University of Arizona in order for PIRE members to work on large-scale synthetic data generation for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. The effort was coordinated with senior team members from CyVerse,...
Black Hole Science – A Live Classroom Event
The Black Hole PIRE project is partnering with Zoom.us to offer a live course taught by two scientists and members of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the global collaboration behind the first-ever black hole image announced in April 2019. This course will be...
GLT Visit
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...
Oregon Teacher of the Year cites Black Hole Image as inspiration
On a daily basis, teachers challenge students to develop 21st century learning skills by providing opportunities to collaborate, communicate, and create. -Arlee Hall Third grade teacher at Coquille Valley Elementary in Oregon. Arlee Hall was chosen as a regional...
$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Black Hole Hunters Including UA Astrophysicists
Dimitrios Pslatis, EHT project scientist, and Feryal Ozel, lead of the modeling analysis working group, are two of several University of Arizona researchers who contributed to the Event Horizon Telescope project, which was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental...
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...
2019 CASPER Workshop and PIRE DSP School
Join the 2019 workshop to discuss new technology and tools for radio astronomers working with FPGA, GPU and general heterogeneous programming. Event is co-hosted by CASPER and Black Hole PIRE. Dates: August 12-16, 2019 Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA....
Public Lecture Series: Bringing Black Holes into Focus with the Event Horizon Telescope
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 this effort involving...
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,...
Live Stream: NSF press conference on first result from Event Horizon Telescope project
Public Talk: Bringing Black Holes into Focus with the Event Horizon Telescope
Public Evening Lecture Bringing Black Holes into Focus: The Event Horizon Telescope's First Image Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Doors open at 7:00pm; talk to begin at 7:30pm. General admission seating. Einstein predicted the existence of black holes over a century...
NSF press conference on first result from Event Horizon Telescope project
NSF press conference on first result from Event Horizon Telescope projectGlobal network of telescopes has been working to capture first-ever image of a black hole April 1, 2019 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will...
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...