A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences has directly observed an Antarctic ice shelf bending under the weight of ponding meltwater on top—a phenomenon that may have triggered the historic 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf.
The South Pole Telescope, situated at the National Science Foundation’s Amendsen-Scott South Pole Station, is part of the largest virtual telescope ever built—the Event Horizon Telescope. By combining telescopes across the Earth, the Event Horizon Telescope will take the first detailed pictures of black holes.
The South Pole Telescope, made up of over a dozen of institutions including UChicago, is used to explore the nature of dark energy.
