This article highlights the groundbreaking work of MIT observational astrophysicist Erin Kara, who studies how supermassive black holes grow, behave, and influence the galaxies around them. Because black holes are too distant to image directly with conventional telescopes, Kara pioneered and advanced a technique known as X-ray reverberation mapping. Similar to how bats use echolocation, […] The post This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy appeared first on MIT Physics .