Black holes are among the most enigmatic o bjects in the universe\, and come in a variety of sizes\, from several tim es the mass of the Sun to monsters with many billions of times the mass of the Sun (and maybe even atomic-sized ones). \; New advances in astrop hysical instruments - with traditional electromagnetic observations as wel l as new ones using particles and gravitational waves - make this a golden age of black hole research. \; Recent findings from gravitational&nbs p\;waves and the early universe are challenging traditional views.
\nDr. Joe Pesce is an astrophysicist whose primary area of interest is in t he external environments of the galaxies hosting supermassive black holes. \; He is currently a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation\, responsible for most of the Govern ment's ground-based radio astronomy facilities.
\nThe image is of th e Milky Way Galaxy as seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west o f Socorro\, New Mexico. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a faci lity of the U.S. National Science Foundation. Image courtesy NRAO/AUI/NSF\ , Jeff Hellerman. \;
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