MIT Physicist Kara Uses X-Ray Echoes to Map Extreme Properties of Supermassive Black Holes
June 26, 2026
June 26, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 26 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:
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Listening for the echoes of black holes
By analyzing X-ray reverberations and other astrophysical data, Erin Kara seeks to understand the most extreme objects in the universe.
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Black holes are often misunderstood to be just that: dark and mysterious voids that are somehow akin to Alice in Wonderland's mind-bending . . .
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Listening for the echoes of black holes
By analyzing X-ray reverberations and other astrophysical data, Erin Kara seeks to understand the most extreme objects in the universe.
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Black holes are often misunderstood to be just that: dark and mysterious voids that are somehow akin to Alice in Wonderland's mind-bending . . .