AIP provides an extensive summary of the WH's new regulations proposed for US science funding, which is imo quite damaging also for people outside of the US. Some rules will essentially force us to choose US or China for collaborations and conference organizations. www.aip.org/fyi/white-ho...

MIT、主要な四つの図書館のうち三つを閉鎖へ。閉鎖された図書館の司書さんら職員も解雇されたとか・・・去年の段階で色んな部門閉鎖して知り合いが解雇されているのを目の当たりにしましたが、研究や教育に関わる施設まで影響が及んでおるのを見るのは結構ショックです。

News You May Have Missed ⤵️ Event Horizon Telescope Results Trace M87 Jet Back to Its Black Hole Expanded telescope baselines, anchored by #ALMA, uncover fresh clues to how the supermassive black hole in M87 launched a 3,000‑light‑year‑long cosmic jet. #Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #BlackHole #EHT

Me, an astronomer, reading this: 😳 Now I desperately need a statistical analysis on movie astronomers. Pretty sure 50%+ of us die in the first 10 minutes of disaster movies after saying "Uh, chief... you might want to look at this asteroid trajectory." www.science.org/content/arti...

古巣MITの総長が資金難と人材危機に関するビデオを公表しています。 ・新税（基金運用益への8%税）と連邦予算の配分ルール変更で、研究資金が20%以上減少。 ・資金不足で院生の受入れを約500人（20%）削減へ。 一緒に働いてきた職員の解雇・離職を目の当たりにしましたし、私自身が古巣を離れざるを得なかったのはこれが一因ですが、状況が改善することなく悪化していて悲しいです。

Sad to watch the latest video message from the President of my former institute, MIT, sharing a "chilling" funding & talent crisis: • Federal research funding down 20%+ • Graduate intake to be cut by ~500 students (20%) due to budget strain & new 8% endowment tax www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xa0...

This week I’m attending the Massive Black Hole Spin workshop at Edinburgh gathering experts a wide spectrum of astronomy using spins of black holes as a probe to explore the universe. Enjoying stimulating talks and discussions!

The @axisprobe.bsky.social team learned that the phase A concept study report of AXIS (the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite) will not be reviewed because the lost personnel at NASA Goddard and government shutdown impacted our schedule and budget. 🔭 Here is the PI's e-mail with the explanation.

Leaving the US and now seeing this in my new country. Given that the US FY26 budgets for mathematical and physical sciences ended up without significant cuts, it is hard not to feel that the UK’s leadership may end up undermining itself faster than the US.

EHT Deputy Project Scientist Dr. Kazunori Akiyama (@kazuakiyama.bsky.social‬) has received a £4M Faraday Discovery Fellowship. The project, TomoGrav, will deliver the first dynamic 3D views of plasma around black holes. Read more: eventhorizontelescope.org/news/2025/12...

JOB UPDATE! I'm moving to the UK after an amazing 10 years at MIT Haystack Observatory (@haystack.mit.edu). I have been awarded a The Royal Society's (@royalsociety.org) £4M Faraday Discovery Fellowship to be hosted at Heriot-Watt University (@heriotwattuni.bsky.social) in Edinburgh. (1/7)

Scientists are creating the first-ever 3D movies of black holes. The work combines world-leading black hole imaging expertise with cutting-edge UK-developed AI. A huge step forward for world science. 👏 Read more: lnkd.in/eXRvfamF #HeriotWattUni @kazuakiyama.bsky.social

Three outstanding international researchers are set to establish new research groups in the UK through the Royal Society’s fast-track scheme for global talent, the Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route. #RSGrants royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...

Congratulations to @kazuakiyama.bsky.social and colleagues! Good news for black hole research and for science. We will miss you but are very happy for you and @heriotwattuni.bsky.social!

The EHT Collaboration recognizes outstanding contributions through the 6th Annual EHT Early Career & Outstanding PhD Awards. Featured here are three 2025 Early Career Research & Leadership Award recipients: Iniyan Natarajan, Paul Tiede, and Efthalia Traianou. Congrats to all!

私の指導教官の本間希樹さんがEHTに関連する研究で仁科賞を受賞しました。EHTの黎明期は日本のプレゼンスを国際的に確立するために本間さんと二人三脚でやってきたこともあり、自分のことのように嬉しくとても感慨深いです。VLBIの分野では３つ目の受賞、電波天文学では４つ目の受賞になります。そう考えると電波天文学やVLBIは物理学分野でもかなり健闘していると思います。 www.nao.ac.jp/news/topics/...

今月からイベント・ホライズン・テレスコープ(EHT)の副プロジェクトサイエンティストとして、EHTの運営チームに加わることになりました。プロジェクトサイエンティストのDe Laurentisさんと一緒に、500名以上の科学者が参加するEHTのコミュニティの国際的な科学運用を取りまとめることになります。来年には初のM87の動画撮影の観測が始まる重要な時期でとても楽しみにしています。

I'm happy to share that I've joined the management team of the EHT Collaboration (@ehtelescope.bsky.social) as Deputy Project Scientist! I'm honored to serve the EHT community—now over 500 scientists worldwide—as we enter this exciting era of capturing the first-ever movies of black holes.

Argh and I forgot the 🔭🧪 --> new black hole results look at first post! And also see: youtu.be/7P04NXrNp5U?...

Check out our new results on the M87* #blackhole w/ @ehtelescope.bsky.social ! We now have 3 frames in a 4yr "movie", including polarisation ⇔ magnetic fields. It's like tracking extreme sunspots just outside a black hole, the brightness and fields flip, yet the shape stays the same bc...gravity!

Groundbreaking new image! The EHT reveals the dynamic environment around black hole M87*. The 2021 image shows a distinct shift in polarization patterns, tracing changes in magnetic fields near the event horizon. eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

Imagine a donut...now squash it🍩. That's what the black hole inside M87* looks like! New EHT research reveals that the squishy distortion is not due to gravity, but the turbulent, swirling plasma around the black hole: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004... #space #blackhole #astronomy #astrophysics

🌍📡 The global Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team met earlier this month in Berlin for the 2025 Collaboration Meeting! 120+ researchers shared breakthroughs, planned 2026 observations, and discussed turning black hole images into time-lapse “movies.” #astronomy #blackholes #globalscience

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Congratulations to Haystack director Phil Erickson! Phil gave the prestigious CEDAR Distinguished Lecture on June 23 at the recent 2025 NSF joint Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) and Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Workshop. www.haystack.mit.edu/news/erickso...

昨年度後半に東京電機大の学部生さんとやった卒論のプロジェクトが、2026年度の入学案内でハイライトされました。日米で検討が進むBlack Hole Explorer Missionの地上観測網に対して膨大な数の観測シミュレーションを行い、その評価をやっていただきました。MITにも来ていただいて、日米の若手研究者の交流の一環ともなりました。 www.d-pam.com/dendai/25143...

Could you starwatch all night? The IRAM 30-m telescope can!✨🌌 This observing mode is called VLBI, which involves telescopes around the world viewing the same object at the same time, such as a black hole, then combining the data to get super-high-resolution images.

"You asked, we answered!🫡 Here are some of our favorite questions from last Friday's Reddit Ask Me Anything for #BlackHoleWeek2025 Have more questions about the mysteries of black holes❓Read the full thread here: www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

東北大の田中さん、東京都市大の津村さんにお声がけ頂いていて、天文学の最新成果を解説する本の執筆に参加させていただきました。第一線で活躍している日本を代表する天文学者の皆さんに混ぜていただいて、私は超巨大ブラックホールの章を担当させていただいています。このような著者陣が集まる本は貴重だと思います。来週発売だそうです！ぜひご覧になってください！ www.kawade.co.jp/np/isbn/9784...

As we've seen this Black Hole Week, black holes have gone from theory to image, from mysteries to measurements. Now, the EHT is entering a new era, where more telescopes around the world — and maybe in space — will capture time-lapse “movies” of black holes. Popcorn, anyone?🎥🍿

It is starting in 2 hours!

The AAS is aware of reports of pending restructuring and more grant cancellations at NSF, and is working to learn more and formulate a response. If you have been directly impacted, please share your story (aas.org/form/share-y...) or contact us at [email protected].

Hey I've been busy grading, but that doesn't mean it's not #BlackHoleWeek! Have burning questions about black holes? Join me and some of my colleagues from @ehtelescope.bsky.social for a Reddit AMA, today from 3-5 PM ET (19-21 UTC)!

About 27,000 light years away, with a mass of more than 4 million Suns, lies the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. If you were to approach it, you’d be deceived by its size - the shadow is roughly twice as big as the black hole’s actual surface!⚫️

Behold Perseus A, one of the closest active supermassive black holes, at 230 million light years away. Composite images like this one from the NRAO, Chandra, Hubble, and the EHT can help us study black holes and their environments, which influence each other.🛰️

Centaurus A is the closest radio galaxy to Earth. Radio galaxies feature two-sided jets that are ejected from the galaxy’s central black hole and measure up to millions of light years long. These jets are theorized to spread energy and affect the growth of their host galaxies.💫

"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy Black Hole Week! This is Messier 87; despite being located about 55 million light years away, the EHT peered at its beating heart in 2017 for its first image. Did you know that the location of the brightest region around the black hole, and its shadow, can change yearly?🔭 #BlackHoleWeek2025

Ever wonder how to study the nature of spacetime and the edges of physics? These mischievous black holes have a clue! Join the Event Horizon Telescope for #BlackHoleWeek2025, May 5th-9th, as we highlight pieces of the black hole science jigsaw puzzle.🌟 #astronomy #astrophysics #blackholes

If you are US residents or citizens and support science, please join us the “Week of Action 2025” organized by the American Astronomical Society (@aas.org) next week. Call your representatives and let’s remind Congress why federal funding for science matters. aas.org/posts/news/2...

If you are US residents or citizens and support science, please join us the “Week of Action 2025” organized by the American Astronomical Society (@aas.org) next week. Call your representatives and let’s remind Congress why federal funding for science matters. aas.org/posts/news/2...

President Donald Trump today asked Congress to make massive and unprecedented cuts to the 2026 budgets of major federal science agencies. scim.ag/3Yszqnm

US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for unprecedented cuts to scientific agencies that, if enacted, would deal a devastating blow to US science, policy specialists say. https://go.nature.com/4jYv3IP

NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

US ground-based astronomy has been largely funded by NSF, including EHT, as well as NRAO that operates world-leading radio telescopes. This will cut ~70%+ of the budget for the infrastructure, including buildings, equipment, and administrators, causing catastrophic damage to basic science research.

Group Letter To Congress Regarding FY2026 NASA budget nasawatch.com/congress/gro... #NASA

NEW: ALMA Detects First-Ever Hydrogen Recombination Lines From Proplyd Disks in Densely Packed Orion Nebula Cluster Archival data points the way toward new ideas for characterizing planet-forming disks with upcoming #ALMA upgrades and #ngVLA telescopes. #RadioAstronomy #Astronomy