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The Black Hole Initiative (BHI) is an interdisciplinary center at Harvard University involving a collaboration between Principal Investigators (PIs) from the fields of Astronomy (Sheperd Doeleman, Avi Loeb and Ramesh Narayan), Physics (Andrew Strominger), Mathematics (Shing-Tung Yau) and Philosophy (Peter Galison). The BHI is the first center worldwide to focus on the study of black holes, and as such it offers a unique naming opportunity for potential donors.
Fittingly, the Black Hole Initiative was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity – a solution that described a black hole decades before the first astronomical evidence that they exist. As exotic structures of spacetime, black holes continue to fascinate astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, philosophers and the general public, following on a century of research into their mysterious nature.
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