{"668603":{"#nid":"668603","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became \u2018Destroyer of Worlds\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJ. Robert Oppenheimer, now the protagonist of a much-anticipated film, is today most known for his scientific leadership of the U.S. Manhattan Project, the World War II\u2013era crash program to build the first-ever atomic bombs. But just a few years earlier, Oppenheimer had found himself pondering very different \u201cweapons\u201d of mass destruction: black holes \u2014 although it would be decades before that name arose. \u201cIt was influential; it was visionary,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/feryal-ozel\u0022\u003EFeryal \u00d6zel\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, of Oppenheimer\u2019s work on black holes and neutron stars, the superdense corpses of expired massive stars. \u201cHe has a lasting impact.\u201d \u00d6zel is a founding member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/at-last-a-black-holes-image-revealed\/\u0022\u003Ereleased the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2014 80 years after Oppenheimer co-authored a paper theorizing that such objects could exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJ. Robert Oppenheimer, now the protagonist of a much-anticipated film, is today most known for his scientific leadership of the U.S. Manhattan Project, the World War II\u2013era crash program to build the first-ever atomic bombs. But just a few years earlier, Oppenheimer had found himself pondering very different \u201cweapons\u201d of mass destruction: black holes \u2014 although it would be decades before that name arose. \u201cIt was influential; it was visionary,\u201d says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/feryal-ozel\u0022\u003EFeryal \u00d6zel\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E, of Oppenheimer\u2019s work on black holes and neutron stars, the superdense corpses of expired massive stars. \u201cHe has a lasting impact.\u201d \u00d6zel is a founding member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/at-last-a-black-holes-image-revealed\/\u0022\u003Ereleased the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2014 80 years after Oppenheimer co-authored a paper theorizing that such objects could exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-07-26 13:47:44","changed_gmt":"2023-07-26 13:47:44","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Scientific American","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/oppenheimer-almost-discovered-black-holes-before-he-became-destroyer-of-worlds\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"190811","name":"Feryal \u00d6zel"},{"id":"192902","name":"J. Robert Oppenheimer"},{"id":"192903","name":"Oppenheimer film"},{"id":"10881","name":"black holes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}