Harvard Physicist Describes the Inside of a Black Hole | Shep Doeleman ​(#217)

Sheperd S. Doeleman is an Astrophysicist at the Center for
Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and
Founding Director of the Event Horizon
Telescope (EHT), a synchronized global array of radio
observatories designed to examine the nature of black holes. He is
also a Harvard Senior Research Fellow and a Project Co-Leader of
Harvard’s recently established Black Hole
Initiative (BHI). The BHI is a first-of-its-kind
interdisciplinary program at the University that brings together
the disciplines of Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, and
History of Science to define and establish black hole science
as a new field of study. As one of the founding members of the
BHI, Doeleman leads a team studying supermassive black holes with
sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon itself.
Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) methods, the EHT
telescope networks observe astronomical radio sources at 1.3
millimeter (mm) wavelengths. These sources include the supermassive
black holes at the centers of our own Milky Way, called Sagittarius
A* (SgrA*), as well as in Messier 87 (M87), the supergiant
elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Doeleman is
a Guggenheim Fellow (2012) and was the recipient of the
DAAD German Academic Exchange grant for research at the Max Planck
Institute für Radioastonomie. He serves as a peer reviewer for
the Astrophysical Journal, Science, and Nature,
among others. Doeleman leads and co-leads research programs
supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) ALMA-NA Development
Fund, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the MIT
International Science & Technology Initiatives (MISTI), the
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the John Templeton
Foundation. He has taught at MIT and mentors students and
post-doctoral fellows at MIT and Harvard. Please Visit our
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