Black Hole Initiative

Join us in welcoming Chengcheng Xin to the BHI! Chengcheng is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows and will be our Colloquium speaker on November 10th.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #blackholes #ChengchengXin #harvard #harvarduniversity #columbia

Please join us on 10.20.25, at 9:30 am, for our next Foundations Seminar.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #eleanormarch @ucirvine #ucirvine #harvard #harvarduniversity

Please join us on 10.20.25 at 11 a.m. for our next Colloquium with Bryan Roberts from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifcolloquium #blackhole #harvarduniversity #harvard #BryanRoberts @snu.official #londonschoolofeconomics

BHI PI Ramesh Narayan and BHI Graduate Student Hyerin Cho recently published a paper.

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Variability in Black Hole Accretion: Dependence on Rotational and Magnetic Energy Balance

#bhi #blackholeinitiative #hyerincho #rameshnarayan #harvard #harvarduniversity #blackholeaccretion

No Foundations Seminar or Colloquium this Monday, Oct 13 — we’re observing Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Need your black hole fix? Dive into our YouTube archives instead: bit.ly/4nAbglg

#bhi #blackholeinitiative #blackhole #harvarduniversity #bhicolloquium #bhifoundationsseminar #indigenouspeoplesday

Join us in welcoming Daine Danielson to the BHI! Dane is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows and will be our Colloquium speaker on December 15th.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #blackholes #DaineDanielson #harvard #harvarduniversity

Please join us on 10.06.25, at 9:30 am, for our next Foundations Seminar.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #jamesweatherall @ucirvine #ucirvine #harvard #harvarduniversity

Please join us on 10.06.25 at 11 a.m. for our next Colloquium with Seok Kim from Seoul National University.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifcolloquium #blackhole #harvarduniversity #harvard #soakkim @snu.official #seoulnationaluniversity

Join us in welcoming Romain Ruzziconi to the BHI!

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative @blackholes #RomainRuzziconi @europeancommission #sklodowskacurie #harvard #harvarduniversity

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #samfletcher @oxford_uni #universityofoxford #harvard #harvarduniversity

Please join us on 09.29.25 at 11 a.m. for our next Colloquium with BHI’s new Postdoctoral Fellow, Siddharth Muthukrishnan.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifcolloquium #blackhole #harvarduniversity #harvard #siddharthmuthukrishnan

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #dominicchang @girlyandthepops #blackhole #havard #harvarduniversity bit.ly/46tL0S6

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #samfletcher @oxford_uni #universityofoxford #harvard #harvarduniversity

Please join us on 09.22.25, at 11 am, for the first Colloquium of the season!

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Open to all via zoom: bit.ly/42vtQCx

#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #elliottgesteau @caltechedu #caltech

The new image of M87* just released today comes to life in this stunning animation, revealing its incredible evolution over the years!

Watch closely and see how this mysterious supermassive black hole changes over time.

Credit: EHT Collaboration | Animation: Saurabh (MPIfR)

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #blackhole #nearextremalblackholes #delilahgates #cfa @centerforastro #harvard #harvarduniversity

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #yuhtsunetoe @yuh_tsunetoe #blackhole #havard #harvarduniversity #SHAO @chinese_academy_of_sciences

Please join us on 09.15.25, at 9:30 am, for the first Foundations Seminar of the season!

Our speaker will be Casper Jacobs, Leiden University.

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhifoundationsseminar #foundationseminar #casperjacobs @universiteitleiden #universiteitleiden

Our Colloquium is back!

Please join us 09.15.25, at 12pm, for an informal discussion with our Director, Peter Galison.

Please join us in person, as this will not be available online.

#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhicolloquium #colloquium #harvard #harvarduniversity #blackhole

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #kung-yisu #ciera #northwestern #harvard #harvarduniversity

Get ready! We are back with our Colloquium and Foundations Seminar series starting Monday, September 15th.

This year we have a stacked lineup and will be more accessible.

#bhi #blackholeinitiative #blackhole #bhifoundationsseminar #bhicolloquium #harvard #harvarduniversity #blackholes

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #angeloricarte #harvarduniversity #harvard

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #prashantkocherlakota #chennaimathematicalinstitute

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #evitaverheijden #stokholmuniversity

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Did you miss the conference? FOMO, amiright?

Here are some highlights and you can check out more photos here: bit.ly/3HnVqu1

Photos: @lotemlphoto

#bhi #blackholeinitiative #blackhole #2025bhiannualconference #harvard #harvarduniversity

This week join us for Anastasia!

We start at 6pm and there will be snacks.

If you are a student, affiliate or alumni, please come join us.

#anastasia #disney #BHI #blackholeinitiative #movienight #filmbuffs

And finally the line up for the last session of our conference:

Moderator: Sasha Plavin
Alex Lupsasca, Vanderbilt University
Sasha Philippov, University of Maryland

#BHI #AlexLupsasca #vanderbiltuniversity #vanderbilt #SashaPhilippov #universityofmaryland
#harvard #harvarduniversity #blackholes

Conference lineup for Day 2, Session V:

Moderator: Daniel Palumbo

Matthew Dodelson, Harvard University

Hsin-Yu Chen, University of Texas at Austin

Alice Bucknel, Artist

#BHI #blackholeinitiative #MatthewDodelson #HsinYuChen #utphysics #universityoftexas #alicebucknell #harvard #blackholes

The Fourth Annual ngEHT History, Philosophy and Culture Working Group is meeting 05.20.2025.

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#bhi #ngEHT #History #Philosphy #Culture #blackholeinitiative #harvard #blackhole