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Sheperd "Shep" S. Doeleman is an American astrophysicist.
Sheperd S. Doeleman is an Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and the Director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

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Dr. Shep Doeleman is a professor at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and the Smithsonian, where he studies supermassive black holes. He is the Director of the Event Horizon Telescope, a global array of radio observatories that produced the first-ever image of a black hole. He also leads Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, which aims to establish black hole science as a new field of study. Shep joins the podcast to discuss his adventures in Antarctica, how you produce an image of an invisible object, and how his international collaboration gives him hope for humanity.

Tom: Shep, welcome to the show today.

Shep: It’s good to be here.

Tom: I want to start by asking you where you grew up and where your imagination led you as a child.

Shep: Well, I grew up in the suburbs of Por

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To see a black hole, Shep Doeleman ’86 needed a telescope the size of a planet. So he built one.

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson | December 5, 2024

Shep Doeleman ’86 wants to make one thing clear: He never talked about folding the Earth in half to power Manhattan for a year, contrary to a satirical article published about him in the New Yorker.

“They actually misquoted me,” Shep says good-humoredly. “I think I said something like, ‘If the Earth became a black hole—if you crushed the Earth to the size of a marble—then you could power certain things with it.’”

Shep may not be folding planets like origami, but his actual achievements are more impressive. In 2010, he vowed to capture the first image of a black hole by the end of the decade—and in 2019, he and his team of astronomers fulfilled that ambition, using the virtual Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to glimpse the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

“Black holes are in literature, art, music, and comic books,R

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Shep Doeleman

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Harvard Senior Research Fellow

My research focuses on studying super massive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon. To do this our group assembles global networks of telescopes that observe at mm wavelengths to create an Earth-size virtual telescope using the technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). We target SgrA*, the 4 million solar mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and M87, a giant elliptical galaxy for this work. Both of these objects present to us the largest apparent event horizons in the Universe, and both can be resolved by (sub)mm VLBI arrays. We call this project The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).