Tag: Charles Alcock

  • Nation & World

    A black hole, revealed

    Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”

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    Harvard Senior Research Fellow Shep Doeleman
  • Nation & World

    Guardians of the sky

    After a flood threatened to destroy the Harvard College Observatory’s trove of glass plate negatives, staff members and students from around the University showed up to help move the plates to safety.

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  • Nation & World

    Brian Marsden, astronomer and comet predictor, 73

    Brian Marsden passed away on Nov. 18 after a prolonged illness at the age of 73. He was a supervisory astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and an associate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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