BIG ACHIEVEMENTS: Thousands of people attended Academia Sinica’s open house yesterday to learn about how the first image of a black hole was captured
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 27, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
Thousands of people yesterday flocked to Academia Sinica’s campus in Taipei’s Nangang District (南港) for its annual open house event, which featured a black hole exhibition and speeches by researchers who helped obtain the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole in April.
Offering more than 300 scientific activities, this year’s open house is expected to have a turnout up to 200,000 visitors — 160,000 more than last year, as interest in black holes has skyrocketed since the image was first revealed, Academia Sinica President James Liao (廖俊智) said.
On April 10, Academia Sinica’s Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics researchers participating in the global Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project shared the first-ever image of a black hole simultaneously with scientists in Washington, Santiago, Brussels, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Paul Ho (賀曾樸) — distinguished research fellow at the institute — yesterday talked about the achievement in a theme speech. [FULL STORY]