Imaging the Invisible: From Black Holes to the Proton

Zhongbo Kang Associate Professor / UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

Some things in the universe are too small or too far away to ever take a picture of with an ordinary camera. For example, we can’t take a photo of the inside of a proton, or the shadow of a black hole. But scientists have clever tricks: we use tiny clues from particles or light waves to ‘rebuild’ what these invisible objects must look like—kind of like solving a puzzle with missing pieces. With new tools, including artificial intelligence, we’re getting better at turning those clues into actual pictures of the invisible world

Recommended grade levels for this talk: 6th-8th