• New brain on the team

    Hi, My name is Casper. Besides the usual astrophysics conundrums I’m also interested in how the brain works. Neuroscience is a bit like astrophysics in that we are pretty good in imaging stuff but still limited in our understanding. To illustrate this, here is a picture of my own brain made with a technique called Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Even though we don’t completely understand how the brain works, my own brain will (hopefully!) come in handy during my Master project with Sera. I’m analyzing the relativistic jet generated by an accretion disk that is tilted with respect to black hole to which it belongs. We’re using state-of the-art techniques to…

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  • Elected member of Science Council of the Event Horizon Telescope

    The new group has arrived as of this week (woohoo!) and I will be adding some information about that as soon as possible, but in the meantime I thought I would just mention some news, which is that as of last month I have been elected to be a member of the Science Council of the international Event Horizon Telescope project. This project is an ingenious idea to use the entire Earth diameter as a huge baseline for a telescope, using a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). Why do this? Because the larger your telescope is, the better you see, and in particular, the finer details you see.…

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