2019 was a big year for science. We saw the first ever image of a black hole, witnessed advances in the treatment of ebola, HIV and cystic fibrosis and added links to our family tree. The first ever all-female spacewalk inspired and we sent spacecraft to the farthest object in our solar system yet.
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work that produced the first image of a black hole, i.e. Capturing the first image of a black hole
NASA scientists learned about Mars quakes, the red planet's version of earthquakes.
NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars in November 2018, has given scientists the unprecedented ability to detect and monitor Mars quakes.
Producing the first image of a black hole, providing evidence that Einstein was right, warped is the light, and space time is Bent.
In October, engineers at Google announced they had created a quantum computer that could perform a computation in just over 3 minutes that would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to achieve.
This achievement in quantum computing — a field of study that strives to enable computers to perform exponentially faster than today's machines — could be used to improve artificial intelligence or assist in the development of new drugs.
Google described the milestone in a paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5?utm_source=commission_junction&utm_medium=affiliate) published in the journal Nature. The authors said the company had achieved "quantum supremacy," meaning their computer did something a conventional computer could never do.
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