April 11, 2019 was a proud day for Astronomy as the very first image of a black hole was photographed and released the public – the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive hole that was predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, strongly supported by Stephen Hawking, with a theory that was previously thought impossible.
The black hole is 6.5 billion times as massive as our sun and considered unseeable to the naked eye as it is 40 billion km from the earth. So, despite the modern telescopes in the world, there is no single telescope that can take a picture of it.
They generated the remarkable photo with the help of crucial algorithms developed by a 29-year-old female computer scientist, Dr.Katie Bouman, and 200 other researchers.
The team created the algorithms using 5 petabytes (5,000,000 gigabytes) of data from 500kg of hard drives. All of these efforts were made to capture an image proving that anything is possible when we work together.
This wonderful portrait of the black hole doesn’t only remind us that nothing is impossible in the age of discovery, but it reminds us that the best things are achieved by global collaboration rather than putting restrictions along with nationalism and isolation.
This historical milestone is the work of scientists from many countries and telescopes configured all across the globe, effectively making a telescope that allows you to see the unseeable.
Did you believe black holes really exist? What do you know about it?
ブラックホールが本当に存在すると信じましたか? あなたはそれについて何を知っていますか?
ブラックホールがあるらしいということは知っていました。
アインシュタインやホーキング博士が説明しているというのを知っていました。
でも、それがどのようなものかは、よくわかっていませんでした。
I knew the black holes might be existed. I knew that Einstein and Stephen Hawking explained in the past time about the black holes. But I didn’t know what they are.
What are the pros and cons of working with international teams?
国際チームと協力することの長所と短所は何ですか?
長所は、いろんな知識や技術が集約されることだと思います。
短所は、それを統制するのはとても難しいことだと思います。
統制して協力できる体制が整えば、大きな力が発揮されると思います。
Pros are that it can make in together a lot of knowledges and skills. On the other hands cons are that it is really difficult to organize and control. If you can arrange the structure to control and collaborate, the big power will be exerted.
Does your company build a collaborative environment? How? Or why not?
あなたの会社は協力する環境を構築していますか? どうやって? またはなぜですか?
割り合い、協力する環境を構築していると思います。
大きな課題があると、プロジェクトチームなどを部署を横断して作ります。
そうすることで、いろんな部署の考えを集めて問題解決をします。
I think my company makes a collaborative environment in comparatively. If we have a big problem, we make project team beyond a lot of departments. By doing so, we can collaborate a lot of departments ideas for solving the problem.
Our company manages a lot of airports in overseas. So, we already have global collaboration. Besides that we collaborate with a lot of foreign airports by committees.
What are some example of the best inventions and discoveries done through global collaboration?
グローバルなコラボレーションを通じて行われた最高の発明と発見の例は何ですか?
具体的な例はわからないですが、生物学や医学、物理学、天文学の分野に多いのではないでしょうか?
でも、実際にはいろんな障害があって、難しいのかもしれません。
I don’t know specific example about it, but I think there may be a lot of example in the categories like biology, medical chemistry, physics and astronomy. But actually, because there are a lot of obstacles, it may be difficult to do it.
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