Measuring the Black Hole
9 Jul 2009, 00:20 UTC
DESCRIPTION: A team of astronomers has used a special radio astronomy technique called VLBI to make some pioneering measurements of the event horizon around the black hole in the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. TheSpacewriter Carolyn Collins Petersen talks with the head of that team, Dr. Shep Doeleman of MIT’s Haystack Observatory. The team’s work has been making big news recently, with articles in Nature and featured in upcoming BBC interviews. You can hear the story now from the team leader’s perspective. PODCASTER: Carolyn Collins Petersen MUSIC FROM: Music by GEODESIUM (http://www.geodesium.com) Special thanks to Dr. Shep Doeleman for his advice about the script for this segment. Also Special thanks to Nicole Gugliucci for her script review. Link: Loch Ness Productions (http://www.lochnessproductions.com/index2.html) Bio: Carolyn Collins Petersen is a science writer and show producer for Loch Ness Productions, a company that creates astronomy documentaries and other materials. She works with planetariums, science centers, and observatories on products that explain astronomy and space science to the public. Her most recent projects were the Griffith Observatory astronomy exhibits in Los Angeles and the California's Altered State climate change exhibits for San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences. She has co-authored several astronomy books, written many astronomy articles, and is currently working on a new documentary show for fulldome theaters, a vodcast series for MIT's Haystack Observatory, and a podcast series for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSOR: This episode of 365 Days of Astronomy is sponsored by the Physics Department at Eastern Illinois University: "Caring faculty guiding students through teaching and research" at www.eiu.edu/~physics/
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