Air Bearings Provide the Precision for Researching Black Holes Predicted as part of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, black holes have captivated astronomers, while also becoming a figurative description for where money and time go. Black holes recently found mainstream attention with the first-ever picture of a black hole silhouette utilizing an array of telescopes….
Air Bearings vs. Zero Stiction: The Challenge for the Keck Observatory
Solving Static Friction Turns a Skeptic into a Believer in Air Bearings Welcome to part three of our blog series as we follow one man and see how his interest in air bearings changed the operations at two world-class astronomy observatories. In part one, we met Peter Gillingham, an astronomy engineer who implemented New Way®…
