Event Horizon Telescope Images of a Black-Hole Powered Jet One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted new information from the EHT data on the distant quasar 3C 279: they observed the finest detail ever seen in a jet...
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf — an object intermediate in mass between a planet and a star. Based on facts known about the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System, a team...
Dear Olin Community, As you are aware, Olin has joined many other colleges in moving its operations online in order to help the public health effort to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the right thing to do during this challenging time, and similar moves and restrictions are impacting the daily lives of millions across the country. However,...
Big Astronomy wins “Best Astronomy Education” Award in the Dome Under Fulldome Film Festival Melbourne: The Dome Under Fulldome Film Festival hosted its first planetarium film fest in Melbourne, Australia, on February 8 – 9. Big Astronomy: People Places Discoveries, a planetarium film funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and produced...