Home Image Carousel with 3 slides A carousel is a rotating set of images. Use the previous and next buttons to change the displayed slide Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 XENON Detector Previous Next Upcoming Events May12ThuEvent Horizon Telescope SgrA* Black Hole ResultsPupin 14029:00 AM - 10:00 AMMay13FriThe Event Horizon Telescope: First Milky Way ResultsPupin 70512:00 PM - 1:00 PMMay13FriTidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes: What have we learned and what can we learnCUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York5:30 PM - 6:30 PM More Colloquia More Seminars News May 11, 2022Graduating Major Profile: Breaking Barriers in AstrophysicsMay 09, 2022Measuring The Shadows Cast By A Black Hole BinaryMarch 14, 2022A New Theory of How Black Holes Merge and Grow Into Heavyweights More News Featured Publication Ultra-Short-Period Massive Black Hole Binary Candidates in LSSTChengcheng XinZoltan Haiman More Publications Big Apple Sky Calendar Date May 5 Event Eta Aquariid meteors (from passage through "tail* of Halley's Comet. Date May 10 Event Cecilia Payne's birthday. Payne was the first to establish that hydrogen is the dominant element in the Sun. Date May 15 Event Total eclipse of the Moon, approx. 10 pm-midnight. For East-coast observers, the best one in years! Date May 24-25 Event The crescent Moon joins Mars and Jupiter in the pre-dawn sky. Date May 29, 1919 Event The most famous of all modern solar eclipses, in which Einstein's theory of gravity was tested - and passed! View Full Calendar
May13FriTidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes: What have we learned and what can we learnCUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York5:30 PM - 6:30 PM