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Highlights from the Yearbook 2019 HIGHLIGHTS cE AUS DEM JAHRBUCH DER MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT DER JAHRBUCH DEM AUS O FROM THE YEARBOOK OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY PLANCK MAX THE OF YEARBOOK THE FROM HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEARBOOK 2019 2019 OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY DEUTSCHE VERSION→ Editorial Each year, the Max Planck Society submits a scientific research report in the form of a yearbook to render account of the scientific research performed at its Institutes to the public and its funding providers. The central questions addressed are: where do we stand, and where do we want to go? The Max Planck Institutes are asked to select a suit- able work or project from their scientific activities, as far as these have reached a certain degree of completion, and outline the relevant find- ings and conclusions. The yearbook contributions of all Max Planck Institutes are published online at www.mpg.de/jahrbuecher. For this printed collection, 15 articles were selected and edited in a journal- istic manner, which seemed particularly suited for publication from a science communication perspective and especially interesting for non-experts. Among the highlights of the 2019 yearbook are, for example, research findings that make it possible to predict the frequency of malaria parasites in a local mosquito population. They provide the basis for new biotechnological strategies to combat malaria – an almost Herculean task in view of steadily growing insecticide resist- ance and the sheer size of the world’s malaria regions. Using data from the social network Facebook, researchers have tracked migration movements from Puerto Rico to the USA following Hurricane Maria in the autumn of 2017. In doing so, they gained new information that traditional data sources such as statistical authorities cannot provide. And that the development from an assisted to a fully automated vehicle might not progress so quickly is shown by studies into research for motion analysis, which is considered a likely com- ponent of future autonomous vehicles. Researchers found that even small interfering signals confuse it, thus reducing the reliability with which a vehicle can navigate in its surroundings. We hope you will enjoy reading our highlights 2019! 1 Content HATE cE matrix HATEHATEHATE O SPEECH H p. 9 p. 15 p. 19 extracellular Protective Synapses The portrait microbes rely on regional 1 of a black hole p. 4 4 at the root p. 12 7 products p. 22 I’m the Attack on 2 A deadly bite p. 7 5 bus stop! p. 15 8 autopilots p. 25 Human rights Combating Helping versus economic online damaged nerves law – the case of 3 bullying p. 9 6 to re-grow p. 19 9 Latin America p. 28 2 100001001 100101 10 111001010 11101000011010 1001001 001 10010010 0001010010 10001 10010001 1000 110 100001001 1001011110100001 10 111001010 100001001 1010 1O01001 100101 10 111001010H3C 11101000011010 1001001 0001010010 10010001 110 0001010010 10010001 110 001100001001 10010010 100101 10001 10 1000 111001010 11101000011010100001001 1001001 100101 10 111001010 1110100001 0001010010 1010 1O01001autono 10010001 110 - 001 10010010 0001010010 10001 10010001 1000 110 100001001 100101100001001 10 111001010 100101 10 111001010 111010000110101110100001100001001 1010100101 1001001 1O01001 10 111001010mous 10000100111101000011010 0001010010 0001010010 100101 10 10010001 1001001 11100101010010001 110 110 000 11101000011010 0001010010 1001001 10010001 110 001 10010010 10001 1000 , 001 10010010 0001010010100001001 10001 10010001100101 1000 10 110 111001010 1110100001 001 10010010 1010 10001100001001 1O01001 1000 100101 10 111001010 1110100001 0001010010100001001 1010 10010001 100101 1O01001 10 110 111001010 1110100001 0001010010 1010 1O01001 10010001 110 CH3 0001010010 10010001 110 185,000 20 HO O p. 25 p. 30 p. 40 Vision RICOPUERTO Caterpillar droppings Sustainable scare off moths alloys for demanding 10 p. 30 13 applications p. 38 How Facebook Break-in is helping to forecasts on measure migration 11 probation p. 33 14 p. 40 Gamma rays Building with DNA 12 from space p. 35 15 p. 43 3 HIGHLIGHTS 2019 MAX PLANCK SOCIETY YEARBOOK CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION The portrait 1of a black hole J. ANTON ZENSUS Black holes are exotic objects that spark the imagination of MICHAEL KRAMER researchers and science fiction authors equally. But despite KARL M. MENTEN SILKE BRITZEN many indirect indications of their existence, these celestial giants ↘ Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in space have so far eluded observation. Only with modern Bonn technology has the invisible become visible. The Event Horizon Telescope – a combination of seven radio telescopes spread across half the globe – has produced the first image of a black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87. More than 30 employees from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn contributed to this success. he fact that black holes must exist results from ed into radiation. This process results in extreme lumi- Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. This nosities of radio galaxies. The radio galaxy Messier 87 T describes gravity as the curvature of space and (M87), some 55 million light years away, was theorised time. Black holes are an extreme example of the curving to contain such a supermassive black hole – which is of space-time. An extreme amount of mass is concen- why it was selected as a target of observation. trated within such a small region of space that not even M87 also exhibits a prominent jet of relativistic light can escape the gravitational well. The outer limb plasma that can be traced back to the location of the of a black hole is referred to as event horizon. Anything black hole. Discovered in optical light more than a hun- that crosses this event horizon can no longer escape. dred years ago, M87’s jet has been studied intensively As its name suggests, a black hole appears black to for decades across the electromagnetic spectrum. The observers. Although these objects can be recognised and technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) characterised by their gravitational interaction, they only allows us to peer down the jet to regions very close to become visible against a bright background and can cast black holes at radio wavelengths. a “shadow”. We have taken advantage of this fact. Since the 1970s, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Supermassive black holes contain billions of solar Astronomy has played a leading role in the expansion of masses and reside at the centres of all galaxies. Matter VLBI networks around the globe and the development flows towards these gravitational wells and finally falls of technology to facilitate observations at ever higher into it. Before the matter crosses the event horizon, an frequencies. Through years of painstaking work, a world- enormous amount of energy is released; this is convert- wide collaboration of astronomers has created a VLBI 4 HIGHLIGHTS 2019 MAX PLANCK SOCIETY YEARBOOK CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION network that can produce images with unprecedented the APEX telescope in the Chilean Andes and equipped sharpness of detail. This Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) it with the same instruments as the ALMA observatory can achieve a resolution of 20 microarcseconds. With stationed there as well as the IRAM 30-metre telescope this, one could – neglecting the curvature of the earth – in Spain. The analysis of the resultant data was carried read a newspaper in Central Park in New York. The EHT out on supercomputers (called correlators) which are observed the galaxy M 87 with seven radio telescopes housed and operated at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn at five different locations. An eighth instrument at the as well as the MIT Haystack Observatory. Finally, the South Pole helped with the calibration. Effelsberg radio telescope provided important additional information through supporting investigations at longer All telescopes observe simultaneously wavelengths. Using the power of the VLBI technique, all seven to one billionth of a second EHT telescopes observed the galaxy M 87 simultaneous- ly to one billionth of a second. The data measured were Our Institute is involved in the Event Horizon Telescope. first stored separately and then compared and com- Our radio antennas and technical equipment have made bined with each other using supercomputers. The imag- important contributions to the observations. We built es thus achieved a detailed resolution determined by the View of a supermassive behemoth: this picture is the first direct visual evidence of a black hole. It’s at the center of Gal- axy Messier 87 and was captured with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). 5 HIGHLIGHTS 2019 MAX PLANCK SOCIETY YEARBOOK CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION Researchers at EHT have shown that supermassive black holes are central “engines” powering the luminous hearts of galaxies. greatest distance between the radio telescopes and the The black hole in M87 is about 55 million light years frequency of the waves received. For the observations away. The centre of our Milky Way is only 26,000 light at 230 gigahertz (corresponding to a wavelength of 1.3 years away. There is also a supermassive black hole millimetres), only a period from 5 to 11 April 2017 was associated with the compact radio source Sagittarius A* available. We were extremely fortunate that the weather (Sgr A*). The fact that this must be a black hole can be on these days was excellent at all locations. deduced from observations of stellar orbits made in EHT has produced the first direct image of a black particular at the Garching Max Planck Institute for Extra- hole and its immediate surroundings. A dark central terrestrial Physics in the group around Reinhard Genzel. area, the “shadow” can be seen. Because of the effects From the motion of the stars around Sgr A*, the mass of light bending in the gravitational field of M87’s black of the black hole has been determined to be about four hole, it actually appears larger than the black hole itself.
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