Waterloo physicist plays key role in capturing first image of black hole

A historic global collaboration, with contributions by a Waterloo physicist, has lifted the veil on a cosmic mystery by proving the existence of black holes.

Avery Broderick, a professor at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and his group played a key role in helping the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration interpret the historic images. Broderick also previously developed theoretical models that accurately predicted what the images would look like.