A Black Hole Hunter Arrives at Caltech
March 29, 2024
March 29, 2024
PASADENA, California, March 29 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
Before joining the faculty this academic year as assistant professor of astronomy, Kareem El-Badry made headlines for debunking other researchers' claims to have discovered black holes. A number of celestial phenomena that suggest the presence of a black hole--which is, as its name suggests, not visible--can be explained in other ways. For El-Badry, debunking black hole claims is . . .
Before joining the faculty this academic year as assistant professor of astronomy, Kareem El-Badry made headlines for debunking other researchers' claims to have discovered black holes. A number of celestial phenomena that suggest the presence of a black hole--which is, as its name suggests, not visible--can be explained in other ways. For El-Badry, debunking black hole claims is . . .