
I spent the summer of 2021 enrolled in Harvard Secondary School in a class entitled Planets, Moons and Their Stars: the Search for Life in the Cosmos. I have always considered myself an intellectually curious person, and have challenged myself to learn for the excitement of gaining knowledge about topics that I am interested in. This summer I joined over 1,000 students on over six continents and sixty-four different countries around the world who shared the same quest as myself. While it was challenging, it was the most engaging and deeply satisfying experience I have had to date. I wrote my final project on Black Holes, and how their existence potentially could alter the event horizon we understand about the universe. My research paper focused on the three types of black holes: stellar black holes, intermediate black holes, and supermassive black holes. My detail was more granular on the large clusters of dark matter that make up one of four types of supermassive black holes. The event horizon and the singularity is one of the most facinating aspect in the known universe. Clues to our own existence can be found throughout the universe, and black holes are one of the greatest unknowns in the scientific community. I intend to keep researching the topic to see if, through knowledge, we can unlock more clues to what causes these events, and if they can give us clues into our past and our possible future. More to come on this topic! Remember to always look up!
