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May 19, 2019
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, Jourdan Dunn, Julia Garner, Nina Dobrev, Vito Schnabel, Gia Coppola, Katie Holmes and Zac Posen attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Technology at the Met Gala

May 13, 2019
Why Summer is the Best Season

Why Summer is the Best Season

May 7, 2019
Lakewood High Takes On Mamma Mia

Lakewood High Takes On Mamma Mia

May 1, 2019
The Legal Voting Age Should be Lowered to 16 and Heres Why.

The Legal Voting Age Should be Lowered to 16 and Heres Why.

April 25, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. In coordinated press conferences across the globe, EHT researchers revealed that they succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. The shadow of a black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape. The black hole’s boundary — the event horizon from which the EHT takes its name — is around 2.5 times smaller than the shadow it casts and measures just under 40 billion km across. While this may sound large, this ring is only about 40 microarcseconds across — equivalent to measuring the length of a credit card on the surface of the Moon. Although the telescopes making up the EHT are not physically connected, they are able to synchronize their recorded data with atomic clocks — hydrogen masers — which precisely time their observations. These observations were collected at a wavelength of 1.3 mm during a 2017 global campaign. Each telescope of the EHT produced enormous amounts of data – roughly 350 terabytes per day – which was stored on high-performance helium-filled hard drives. These data were flown to highly specialised supercomputers — known as correlators — at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory to be combined. They were then painstakingly converted into an image using novel computational tools developed by the collaboration.

The First-Ever Image Of a Black Hole

April 15, 2019
Why Spotify is Better than Apple Music

Why Spotify is Better than Apple Music

April 8, 2019
Lakewood Raises the age of Tobacco and Vaping Products.

Lakewood Raises the age of Tobacco and Vaping Products.

April 2, 2019
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