Press Release

Research Team Discovers Path to Razor-Sharp Black Hole Images

March 18, 2020
Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image of a black hole. Today, a team of researchers have published new calculations that predict a striking and intricate substructure within black hole images from extreme gravitational light bending...
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Portrait of Alondra Nelson

In the Media

An Interview with Alondra Nelson in the Believer

March 18, 2020
"I think that if we want to understand anything about science and technology, we need to begin with the people who have been the most damaged, the most subjugated by it, but who also, out of that history, are often able to be early adopters...
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IAS News

2020 Abel Prize to Be Shared by Gregory Margulis, Former IAS Member

March 18, 2020
The 2020 Abel Prize is jointly awarded to Gregory Margulis , former Member (1991, 2006) in the School of Mathematics, and Hillel Furstenberg. Margulis, of Yale University, and Furstenberg, of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are cited by the Abel Committee for “pioneering the...
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Press Release

Paper Sheds Light on Infant Universe and Origin of Matter

March 10, 2020
A new study, conducted to better understand the origin of the universe, has provided insight into some of the most enduring questions in fundamental physics: How can the Standard Model of particle physics be extended to explain the cosmological excess of matter over antimatter? What...
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