On April 10, 2019, researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
The Earth’s highest elevated continent offers a unique platform to study the starry skies and beyond. For decades, UChicago has participated in Antarctica’s community of researchers to explore the evolution of the earliest structures that form our galaxy, explore dark energy using the South Pole Telescope, and help tell the story of our planet through the measurement of glacier melt.
On April 10, 2019, researchers reveal that they have succeeded, unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.
Scientists extracted samples from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica to examine what past climate change looked like.
Using seismometers, UChicago scientists recorded hundreds of thousands of “ice quakes,” a phenomenon that may help track glacier melting.
Alison Banwell, a postdoctoral visiting fellow at CIRES, wades through a meltwater lake to retrieve a pressure sensor at the end of the field season.
McMurdo Station is Antarctica's largest community. It is built on the bare volcanic rock of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island, the farthest south solid ground that is accessible by ship.
Read this fact sheet to discover some misconceptions and uncommonly known truths about life on Antarctica.
