The Edge of All We Know

Wednesday 10 April 2019 will go down in history as the day the first photo of a black hole was presented to the world. The Event Horizon Telescope project had achieved what was thought to be impossible. Years of dedication by a network of global scientists that included Stephen Hawking had paid off and the results were incredible. The Edge of All We Know is a tribute to the scientists who pushed past the limits of what we see and what we know to achieve the impossible.

Talk

What was it like to work on the Event Horizon Telescope team? How did this iconic image of a black hole came to be? And what actually is an ‘Event Horizon’? Sera Markoff (University of Amsterdam), professor of Theoretical High-Energy Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam, is one of the proud members of the Event Horizon Telescope team. Science journalist Esther Thole interviews her about black holes, the limit of human knowledge, and the process behind the picture.