Vera Rubin and the Discovery of Dark Matter
For most of the twentieth century, the picture of a galaxy was the picture Edwin Hubble had given the world in the 1920s and…
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astronomy
How the First Picture of a Black Hole Was Taken
On the morning of 10 April 2019, in a basement corridor at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a 29-year-old computer scientist…
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