Tag: Harvard Center for Astrophysics

  • Science & Tech

    First image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way

    Pioneering Harvard-led global collaborative unveils latest portrait, bolstering understanding of relativity, gravity.

    7–11 minutes
    First image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
  • Science & Tech

    Music of the spheres

    Team uses data from space telescopes to create music.

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Digging into the history of the cosmos

    The main goal of Cora Dvorkin’s lab is trying to understand the nature of one of the universe’s most important and puzzling features: dark matter.

    6–9 minutes
    Cora Dvorkin.
  • Science & Tech

    New views of the cosmos

    Though it won’t be completed until 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a radio telescope observatory under construction in northern Chile, is already the most powerful and complex such facility ever built, and four astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are among those first in line to use it.

    4–5 minutes