Theoretical physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt have analysed data from the black hole M87 as part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration to test Albert Einstein s theory of general relativity. According to the tests, the size of the shadow from M87 is in excellent agreement being from a black hole in general relativity, but sets constraints on the properties of black holes in other theories.
E-Mail Making a donation to research helped me overcome a feeling of helplessness during the first days of the coronavirus crisis, says Raina Jockers, one of the more than 2000 donors for the Goethe Coronavirus Fund, explaining her motivation. The feelings of the Goethe University graduate are undoubtedly shared by many. The majority of donors contributed between 10 and 100 euros to the fund. The smallest donation came from the donation of bonus points from the payback programme and amounted to 2 cents; the largest was almost one million euros. Eight donors gave sums of more than 100,000 euros.
Using the non-profit online fundraising platform betterplace.org for the first time, the university s call for donations reached even beyond Frankfurt citizens and foundations and companies from the Rhine-Main area, with donations coming in from Hamburg, Munich and even the USA. The fundraising platform also reported regularly on the work of the scientists, which may have motivated so
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The economies of China and Singapore are among the most dynamic migration regions in the world. But Japan and Korea also rely on the immigration of skilled workers. The competition for qualified professionals sets several million people on the move in these regions every year. The role that skills and education play in mobility is now being investigated by scholars on East Asia from the universities of Frankfurt and Duisburg-Essen, the Free University of Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Multiethnic and Multireligious Societies in Göttingen. The junior research group coordinated by Goethe University will receive a total of more than 2 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the next four years as part of the Small Subjects funding initiative.