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SPECIAL FEATURE

IN THE MESSIER 87 LIES A BEAUTY

An Epic Galactical

Adventure Of The

Black Hole

Dr. Juan Carlos was part of the Event Horizon
D i s c o v e r y b y ,
Telescope Collaboration (EHT) that won the
D r J u a n C a r l o s A l g a b a M a r c o s
2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental
D e p a r t m e n t o f P h y s i c s
Physics. This team captured the world’s first
F a c u l t y o f S c i e n c e
images of the supermassive black hole lying in
U n i v e r s i t i M a l a y a
the center of the galaxy M87, thus confirming
the existence of these objects predicted by

Einstein's theory of relativity about 100 years
ago. The Breakthrough Prize, known as the
“Oscars of Science”, annually recognizes
The video in the next page starts with a view of achievements in the Life Sciences, Fundamental
ALMA and zooms in on the heart of M87, showing
successively more detailed observations and Physics and Mathematics, disciplines that ask
culminating in the first direct visual evidence of a the biggest questions and seek the deepest
supermassive black hole’s shadow.
explanations. Considered the world’s most
Credit: generous science prize, each Breakthrough
ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Prize offers US$3mil (RM12.6mil), which, unlike
ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim
et al., EHT Collaboration. Music: Niklas Falcke other prizes, is shared among all collaboration
members.

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