Black hole discovery + MIT Learn + from MIT to the MLB

By rahmat hidayat

Senin, 28 Juli 2025

view in browser MIT Daily July 28, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Black Hole Discovery Astronomers were recently surprised to find star-shredding black holes hiding in dusty galaxies. Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant, “waking” briefly to feast on a passing star. The observations “look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before,” says PhD student Megan Masterson. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Theory-guided strategy expands the scope of measurable quantum interactions An oft-ignored effect can be used to probe an important property of semiconductors, a new study finds. Full story via MIT News → MIT Learn offers “a whole new front door to the Institute” The AI-enabled platform serves as a hub for MIT’s lifelong learning opportunities. Full story via MIT News → The “productivity paradox” of AI adoption in manufacturing firms Companies that adopt industrial artificial intelligence see productivity losses before longer-term gains, according to new research. Full story via MIT Sloan→ MIT’s Mason Estrada to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers The star pitcher has been studying aerospace engineering at MIT. Now his pitches, and career, will take flight in professional baseball. Full story via MIT News → Victor McElheny, founding director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program, dies at 89 The pioneering journalist and author was a steadfast champion of science journalism and its global community of practitioners. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @MITMuseum on Facebook→ In the Media Bionic knee helps amputees walk naturally again // Fox News Professor Hugh Herr and his colleagues developed a new prosthetic that could increase mobility for above-the-knee amputees. “We're witnessing the future of prosthetics unfold. The bionic knee developed by MIT doesn’t just restore function, it redefines it. By merging advanced robotics with the human nervous system, it offers amputees something priceless: the feeling that their body is whole again.”  Full story via Fox News→ Know Your Bot Can you guess the correct response to this recent final “Jeopardy!” clue? The natural language processing program, or chatbot, was created in the 1960s by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, whose original code is held at MIT Libraries’ Distinctive Collections. See the answer→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by the benefits of birdwatching. 🐦 The MIT Daily is publishing on a summer Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule through August. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.ikut@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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