Tag: Gravity

  • Science & Tech

    ‘Seeing the unseeable’

    A years-long effort by dozens of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

    9 minutes
    In the first picture of a black hole, it is outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon.
  • Science & Tech

    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.”

    5 minutes
    Harvard Senior Research Fellow Shep Doeleman
  • Health

    Why weeping willows bend and poison ivy doesn’t

    A mathematical framework can explain how a plant stem’s “sense of self” contributes to its growth upward or downward.

    2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Ups and downs of sea level

    Professor Jerry Mitrovica shed light on the dynamics of sea level rise in a talk at the Geological Lecture Hall.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    The ever-smaller future of physics

    Nobel winner Steven Weinberg brought his thoughts on a “theory of everything” to the Physics Department’s Lee Historical Lecture.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Calling the Oscars

    For the past three years, a Harvard College junior has employed statistics and percentages to predict many winners at the Academy Awards.

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Ice sheet in peril? Gravity to the rescue

    Gravity’s surprising effects when the Earth’s ice sheets melt can help to stabilize ones, such as those found in West Antarctica, that are grounded below sea level.

    4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A line on string theory

    Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa tells scientists at the Large Hadron Collider that the discovery of a predicted, long-lived particle during research there would be the first experimental confirmation of string theory.

    12 minutes