Janna Levin Instagram – My former street corner in The North End, Boston. My roommate was Shep Doeleman, who became the director of Event Horizon Telescope. We were deep in tumultuous graduate school struggles. Capturing an image of a black hole was a foolish dream. Gawd we laughed so much. There were some tears too.
To think that in an uncertain future, I’d travel to the National Press Club to watch Shep reveal the image, to join a billion people around the globe looking together in that moment at a black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun & 55 million light years away…gah. What a time to be alive.
In the background, The Old North Church: “One if by land. Two if by sea.” And all that.
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@ehtelescope @mitpics | Posted on 29/Aug/2021 19:43:05
