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2019 Science Breakthrough of the Year: Imaging the Event Horizon

December 11, 2018

With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity accumulates only grows and grows. At the start of 2015, humanity had never detected a gravitational wave; at present, we've detected 11, and full expect to find perhaps hundreds more in 2019. In the early 1990s, we didn't know whether there were any planets outside our own Solar System; today, we have thousands, some of which are almost good enough to be considered Earth-like. 

We've found all the particles in the Standard Model; we've discovered that the Universe is not only expanding,...

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