Scientists Will Track Black Holes in Motion for the First Time
Ben Sullivan
The two fuzzy doughnuts that stunned the world in 2019 and 2022, humanity’s first direct images of black holes, were revolutionary, but they captured only a moment. Gas swirls around these cosmic engines at nearly light speed, magnetic fields twist and snap, and spacetime itself warps under extreme gravity. None of that motion appeared in those static snapshots. Dr. Kazunori Akiyama, who helped create those landmark images, is now moving from MIT to Scotland with £4 million in funding to build..