S&T grad helps capture first-ever image of black hole
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This past spring, an S&T graduate was among the group of scientists who captured the first image of a supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, or M87. M87 is a galaxy within the Virgo galaxy cluster, 55 million light years from earth.
Frederick K. Baganoff, Phys’85, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, collaborated on the international Event Horizon Telescope project to produce the first direct images of a black hole.
Baganoff and over 200 scientists worldwide announced this breakthrough on April 10 in a series of papers published in a special issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
