Lectures on Tap - "Building the Real Images of Supermassive Black Holes"

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🧠 Lecture: "Building the Real Images of Supermassive Black Holes"

🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Justin Robinson

Explore how we turned one of the universe’s most mysterious objects into a real image you can actually see. Dr. Justin Robinson will guide you through the science behind the Event Horizon Telescope’s groundbreaking views of the supermassive black holes at the centers of Messier 87 and our own Milky Way.

Follow the journey from “how to create a black hole” in theory, to the sophisticated computer simulations that predicted their appearance, to the global web of telescopes that worked in unison to capture these historic observations.

You’ll learn how these images transformed our understanding of black holes—from testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity to uncovering how these cosmic giants shape and interact with their surrounding galaxies.

Dr. Robinson is a lecturer of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University, a researcher on supermassive black holes and the cosmic distance ladder, and a leading public outreach voice through programs like Astronomy on Tap.

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