Thursday, September 5, 2019
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration was awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. This includes six UMass Amherst Astronomy colleagues: Sandra Bustamante, Aleks Popstefanija, Vern Fath, Ron Grosslein, Kamal Souccar, Neal Erickson, Pete Schloerb, and Gopal Narayanan. All 347 co-autors are featured in the 6 discovery papers published in April 10, 201
The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. All 347 co-authors that are featured in any of the 6 discovery papers that were published in Apr 10, 2019, will share the prize equally.
Representing UMass in the said author list are the following people.
- Sandra Bustamante
- Aleks Popstefanija
- Vern Fath
- Ron Grosslein
- Kamal Souccar
- Neal Erickson
- Pete Schloerb
- Gopal Narayanan