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Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb is the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011-2020), founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also chairs the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies and the advisory board for the Breakthrough Starshot project, and is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.


An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

Avi Loeb Considers the Greatest Scientific Anomaly of Our Age
January 26, 2021  By Avi Loeb
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