Tag: Andrew Chael
Andrew Chael helped the world see the impossible while helping other queer scientists thrive
Andrew Chael
A Harvard astrophysicist who helped capture the first ever image of an actual black hole in space.
In April 2019, Chael and a team of over 200 international astronomers and computer scientists working on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) accomplished a feat once considered impossible: They captured an image of a black hole.
It initially seemed impossible because black holes emit no light, a complication made even more puzzling considering the photo’s subject would be millions of light...
