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| The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, showing the "black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon." (Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al) |
Some areas of celebration to share with our students:
(1) it involved an international team working collaboratively to create this visual;
(2) the intersection of math, science, technology, and engineering (STEM!) all function together to make this happen;
(3) some of the scientists that worked on this coding are young scientists! (Not just the older male with white hair in a lab coat old-school "scientist" image.) Check out the team that includes diverse, young, and female scientists!
These together show that the STEM fields are collaborative, interconnected, and current! Our students should see themselves in this work - there are many many areas of our world (and wider universe!!) that have yet to be fully explored. The beauty of this scientific achievement is that with each new discovery we get filled with more questions and more potential.
- Scientist Sheperd Doeleman, project director: https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu/people/sheperd-doeleman
- Scientist Katie Bouman's Video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKM-EmX0kJM
- Scientist Andrew Chael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit
- Mareki Honma's university site: https://guas-astronomy.jp/eng/Supervisors/m-honma.html
- Article about the discovery: https://www.wbur.org/npr/711723383/watch-earth-gets-its-first-look-at-a-black-hole
- @ESO This 17-minute film explores the efforts that led to this historic #RealBlackHole image, from the science of Einstein and Schwarzschild to the struggles and successes of the @ehtelescope collaboration.: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1907a/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialSignIn
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