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The first image of a black hole

$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Black Hole Hunters Including UA Researchers

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which included several University of Arizona researchers and students, received a prestigious award for producing the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes.
A high-tech tractor-type vehicle moves across a field.

UA Testing Out Cutting-Edge Farming Technology

Arizona engineers operate automated tractors that can do the work of thousands of farmers.
Purple norovirus microbes viewed through a microscope

Using a Smartphone to Detect Norovirus

University of Arizona researchers strike the balance between sensitivity and affordability with a new method for identifying this gut-busting microbe.
Screencap of a newscast with a car driving across the frame and a lower-third caption that reads, "Making Driverless Cars Safer: Students Show Off Technology at UA"

Students Driving Autonomous Vehicles Toward Safer Future

A group of college students from around the United States spent their summer developing driverless car tech at the University of Arizona.

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