Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post

A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the “brightest young scientists” in the US and Canada for his work hunting for black holes has returned to China. Dai Liang, who received a Sloan Research Fellowship for physics in 2021, recently took up a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai and joined the Fudan Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The fellowships were established in 1955 by former General Motors chief executive Alfred Sloan to support early-career researchers...

By Shi Huang