It’s now been six years since the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration shocked the world with this first-ever image of a black hole. How did they make it happen, and what are they up to now?…
That One Black Hole Image, Revisited
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By Viktoria Leopold A thin stem rising out of the ground, supporting a translucent, ethereal and ghostly head like a decaying white rose. Tiny, salmon pink globes clustered on the face of a rotting log. A group of brown edges curled up like shriveled book pages. While these descriptions might evoke images of an alien…
Below the SURFace: Amherst Students Present Their Research
By Nora Lowe On September 8, the Science Center was cleared of furniture and filled instead with student researchers. This year’s cohort of Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) participants presented more than 80 posters as the culmination of their multiweek experience of rigorous scientific inquiry across nine departments, as well as in collaboration with parties…