Professor Peter Galison

Pellegrino University Professor, History of Science and of Physics, Harvard University

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Arts & Culture

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Picturing the Event Horizon

In 2019, astronomers captured the first ever image of a black hole. Around it is the Event Horizon, where space and time bend. It’s an amazing picture, but is it art?

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