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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-12-08
CONTENTS
[01] 'Ultimate test' of Einstein's theory of relativity expected in 2017,
Greek scientist tells ANA-MPA
[02] 2,276 refugees arrive at Piraeus port on Tuesday
[01] 'Ultimate test' of Einstein's theory of relativity expected in 2017,
Greek scientist tells ANA-MPA
Scientists are on the verge of conducting the "ultimate test" to confirm
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Greek scientist Dimitris Psaltis
revealed in an interview with ANA-MPA on Monday. An expatriate Greek
and professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona,
Psaltis is a key member of the team using the Event Horizon Telescope
that hopes to produce the first images from the perimeter of a black
hole at the centre of our galaxy, as well as other galaxies further off.
Psaltis said that his team had developed the 'test' to be conducted by
the EHT and that its first observations from black holes are expected
in early 2017. He did not rule out the possibility that the findings of
the new super-telescope might lead to modifications of Einstein's theory.
The EHT is an array of many radio-telescopes covering the entire planet,
with observation points from Hawaii to the French Alps and the mountains
of Arizona to the South Pole. When the different readings of these
radio-telescopes are combined using a super-computer, they act as a single
'virtual' telescope as large as the Earth, allowing the EHT to achieve
levels of magnification that are impossible with individual telescopes.
[02] 2,276 refugees arrive at Piraeus port on Tuesday
Another 2,276 refugees arrived at Piraeus port on Tuesday morning.
"Blue Star 1" carried 1,231 refugees from Mytilene and Chios and "Nisos
Rhodos" carried 1,045 refugees also from Mytilene and Chios.
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