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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...

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...

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...

  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...

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....

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 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,...

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 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) 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...

    Event Horizon Telescope data are giving scientists an image of the Milky Way’s behemoth BY LISA GROSSMAN09:58AM, MARCH 29, 2019 We’re about to see the first close-up of a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of eight radio observatories spanning the...

By Tyler Kern March 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...

       Jan 13, 2019 College of Science Featured Speaker By Sara Hammond UA College of Science   For theoretical astrophysicist Feryal Özel, black holes provide a path to answering physics questions that otherwise haven’t been answered. Özel is a leader...