HomeDate: 2025-10-29
Speaker: Dr. Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University, USA)
Moderator: Dr. James C. Liao, President of Academia Sinica
Time: November 17, 2025, Monday, 14:30-16:30
Venue: Second Conference Room (3F), Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB), Academia Sinica
Online Registration
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Government employees participating in the lecture will receive certification for lifelong learning and 2 hours of study credit.
Contact:
Mr. Chang, Department of International Affairs, Academia Sinica
Tel: (02) 2789-9895
In this golden age of astronomy, the sky is full of riveting objects. But nothing has captured the attention of so many disciplines as black holes have, across mathematics, physics, astronomy to history & philosophy of science. Indeed, black holes hit home with astonishing reach in the first image of the supermassive black hole M87* taken in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC), an image of a seemingly unseeable object. In the EHTC, Galison worked in the imaging group to make this first-ever black hole picture. Tracing spacetime near the horizon—an edge of the universe—this light ring carries with it everything there is to say about the black hole.
