Title : |
Seeing the unseeable? story of the recent M87 ring image |
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Speaker | : | Prof. Rajaram Nityananda, Azim Premji University, Bangalore |
Date | : | October 23, 2019 |
Time | : | 3:00 PM |
Venue | : | Lecture Hall-1 |
Abstract | : |
This talk will go over the theoretical and observational background, and the technological progress, underlying the ring which has been splashed in all the media since April 2019 as the first image of a black hole. This achievement drew together many threads : general relativity, plasma physics, galactic astronomy, precision electronics and timekeeping, and modern image processing into a global collaboration |