In a Moving Gesture, NASA Names Agency Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary Jackson
When Mary Jackson began her career as the first Black female engineer at NASA, she was relegated to a computer lab segregated from the rest. Nearly seventy years later, those…
After 50 Years, Experiment Finally Shows Energy Could Be Extracted From a Black Hole
A 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification. Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process…