Anúncio
O Prémio Breakthrough em física fundamental foi atribuído à Colaboração EHT (Event Horizon Telescope)
9 de Setembro de 2019
A Colaboração EHT (Event Horizon Telescope) — a equipa que capturou a imagem de um buraco negro pela primeira vez — recebeu o Prémio Breakthrough de 2020 em Física Fundamental em reconhecimento deste feito extraordinário. A equipa usou uma rede, com o tamanho da Terra, de oito rádio telescópios colocados no solo, incluindo dois dos quais o ESO é um parceiro principal: o Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) e o Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). Entre os cientistas que partilharão o prémio, três deles trabalham ou trabalharam recentemente no ESO.
A localização dos telescópios ALMA e APEX [1][2] no Chile foi crucial para se atingir a resolução sem precedentes necessária para obter este resultado pioneiro. A grande área colectora combinada das antenas do ALMA torna esta infraestrutura a mais sensível da rede EHT e uma parte crucial de toda a rede, permitindo assim que o EHT capture sinais dez vezes mais fracos do que o que seria possível sem o ALMA.
A Fundação do Prémio Breakthrough e os seus patrocinadores fundadores — Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan e Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri e Julia Milner, e Anne Wojcicki — anunciaram o vencedor do prémio a 5 de Setembro de 2019. O Diretor da Colaboração Shep Doeleman, do Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, receberá o prémio em nome da Colaboração numa cerimónia que decorrerá no dia 3 de Novembro de 2019. O prémio no valor de 3 milhões de dólares será partilhado igualmente pelos 347 cientistas co-autores dos seis artigos publicados pela colaboração EHT a 10 de Abril de 2019.
Entre os vencedores do prémio encontram-se Neil Phillips, Cientista de Instrumentos do ALMA no ESO, Rubén Herrero-Illana, bolseiro do ESO com tarefas no ALMA, e Hugo Messias, que até há pouco tempo era bolseiro do ALMA empregado pelo ESO.
A imagem EHT, que atingiu fama mundial após ter sido divulgada pela Colaboração no dia 10 de Abril de 2019, revela o buraco negro no centro de Messier 87, uma galáxia massiva situada no enxame de galáxias próximo da Virgem. Este buraco negro encontra-se a cerca de 55 milhões de anos-luz de distância da Terra e possui uma massa de 6,5 mil milhões de vezes a massa do Sol.
Notas
[1] O ALMA surge no âmbito de uma parceria entre o ESO, a Fundação Nacional de Ciências dos Estados Unidos (NSF) e os Institutos Nacionais de Ciências da Natureza (NINS) do Japão, em cooperação com a República do Chile. O ALMA é financiado pelo ESO em prol dos seus Estados Membros, pela NSF em cooperação com o Conselho de Investigação Nacional do Canadá (NRC) e do Conselho Nacional Científico da Taiwan (NSC) e pelo NINS em cooperação com a Academia Sinica (AS) da Taiwan e o Instituto de Astronomia e Ciências do Espaço da Coreia (KASI).
[2] O APEX é uma colaboração entre o Instituto Max Planck de Rádio Astronomia (MPIfR), o Observatório Espacial Onsala (OSO) e o ESO. A operação do APEX no planalto chileno do Chajnantor, na região do Atacama, está a cargo do ESO.
Links
- Anúncio oficial do Prémio Breakthrough de 2020
- Nota de imprensa sobre a primeira imagem de um buraco negro
- Entrevista no ESOBlog com Rubén Herrero-Illana e Hugo Messias
Contactos
Mariya Lyubenova
ESO Head of Media Relations
Garching bei München, Alemanha
Tel: +49 89 3200 6188
Email: pio@eso.org
Sobre o anúncio
| Id: | ann19043 |
Imagens
Our use of Cookies
We use cookies that are essential for accessing our websites and using our services. We also use cookies to analyse, measure and improve our websites’ performance, to enable content sharing via social media and to display media content hosted on third-party platforms.
ESO Cookies Policy
The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities for astronomy.
This Cookies Policy is intended to provide clarity by outlining the cookies used on the ESO public websites, their functions, the options you have for controlling them, and the ways you can contact us for additional details.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device by websites you visit. They serve various purposes, such as remembering login credentials and preferences and enhance your browsing experience.
Categories of cookies we use
Essential cookies (always active): These cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of our website. Without these cookies, the website cannot operate correctly, and certain services, such as logging in or accessing secure areas, may not be available; because they are essential for the website’s operation, they cannot be disabled.
Functional Cookies: These cookies enhance your browsing experience by enabling additional features and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings. While not strictly necessary for the website to function, they improve usability and convenience; these cookies are only placed if you provide your consent.
Analytics cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with our website, such as which pages are visited most often and how users navigate the site. This data helps us improve website performance, optimize content, and enhance the user experience; these cookies are only placed if you provide your consent. We use the following analytics cookies.
Matomo Cookies:
This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source software which enables the statistical analysis of website visits. Matomo uses cookies (text files) which are saved on your computer and which allow us to analyze how you use our website. The website user information generated by the cookies will only be saved on the servers of our IT Department. We use this information to analyze www.eso.org visits and to prepare reports on website activities. These data will not be disclosed to third parties.
On behalf of ESO, Matomo will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Matomo cookies settings:
Additional Third-party cookies on ESO websites: some of our pages display content from external providers, e.g. YouTube.
Such third-party services are outside of ESO control and may, at any time, change their terms of service, use of cookies, etc.
YouTube: Some videos on the ESO website are embedded from ESO’s official YouTube channel. We have enabled YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode, meaning that no cookies are set unless the user actively clicks on the video to play it. Additionally, in this mode, YouTube does not store any personally identifiable cookie data for embedded video playbacks. For more details, please refer to YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Cookies can also be classified based on the following elements.
Regarding the domain, there are:
- First-party cookies, set by the website you are currently visiting. They are stored by the same domain that you are browsing and are used to enhance your experience on that site;
- Third-party cookies, set by a domain other than the one you are currently visiting.
As for their duration, cookies can be:
- Browser-session cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser;
- Stored cookies, which stay on the user's device for a predetermined period of time.
How to manage cookies
Cookie settings: You can modify your cookie choices for the ESO webpages at any time by clicking on the link Cookie settings at the bottom of any page.
In your browser: If you wish to delete cookies or instruct your browser to delete or block cookies by default, please visit the help pages of your browser:
Please be aware that if you delete or decline cookies, certain functionalities of our website may be not be available and your browsing experience may be affected.
You can set most browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in, shop check out).
Updates to the ESO Cookies Policy
The ESO Cookies Policy may be subject to future updates, which will be made available on this page.
Additional information
For any queries related to cookies, please contact: pdprATesoDOTorg.
As ESO public webpages are managed by our Department of Communication, your questions will be dealt with the support of the said Department.