{"id":1269,"date":"2023-09-25T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:52:49","slug":"alex-lupsasca-wins-new-horizons-in-physics-prize-from-the-breakthrough-prize-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/2023\/09\/25\/alex-lupsasca-wins-new-horizons-in-physics-prize-from-the-breakthrough-prize-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Lupsasca wins New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/bio\/alex-lupsasca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Lupsasca<\/a> has won a <a href=\"https:\/\/breakthroughprize.org\/News\/83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize<\/a> for his theoretical work on the interpretation of black hole images and his proposal of a new method for using super-powered telescopes to look closely at black holes and their invisible fingerprints called photon rings. The New Horizons Prize recognizes early-career physicists and mathematicians who are making strides in their research fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2023\/09\/14\/alex-lupsasca-wins-new-horizons-in-physics-prize-from-the-breakthrough-prize-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0See full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics Alex Lupsasca has won a 2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize for his theoretical work on the interpretation of black hole images and his proposal of a new method for using super-powered telescopes to look closely at black holes and their invisible fingerprints called photon rings. The New Horizons&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/09\/29135239\/alex-lupsasca-l.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}