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Nature Astronomy volume 6, pages 1111–1113 (2022)
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How does one maintain a personal professional identity while part of a large collaboration in which everything is a team effort? Tensions will undoubtedly arise, but among the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, at least, they are resolved as one would handle family dynamics.
In his 1983 work The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar began “The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the Universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.”1 The opening establishes outright the deep, awe-filled fascination that Chandrasekhar held for these celestial phenomena.
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