This spring, astronomers of the international Event Horizon Telescope project plan to film the first video of a black hole in history, having chosen for the shoot a cosmic object the size of the Solar System with a mass of 6 billion suns

The Event Horizon Telescope is a network of 12 radio telescopes located at different points of the globe, from Antarctica to Spain and Korea. In 2019 the astronomers of this project published the world's first image of the shadow of a black hole

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

This spring, astronomers of the international Event Horizon Telescope project plan to film the first video of a black hole in history, having chosen for the shoot a cosmic object the size of the Solar System with a mass of 6 billion suns

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s