Drag racing and black hole physics

The first undergraduate on the Event Horizon Telescope to receive junior collaborator status thrives in the unknown. The silver Mustang EcoBoost was fishtailing, its back wheels losing traction and spinning out on the wet pavement of the New England Dragway. On a cold and damp October night at the quarter-mile racetrack in the small town of Epping, New Hampshire, Joseph Farah was careening at over 100 miles per hour when he lost control of the car. Suddenly, eureka. Farah races his Mustang on th...