Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Heidi Jo Newberg, Ph.D., professor of astronomy; Tom Donlon, Ph.D., a visiting […]
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Yen-Jie Lee probes particle collision data for clues to the universe’s origins | MIT News
When Yen-Jie Lee came to MIT as a graduate student in 2006, it was a […]
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Look! Up in the sky! Is it a planet? Nope, just a star | MIT News
The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close […]
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Scientists develop the largest, most detailed model of the early universe to date | MIT News
It all started around 13.8 billion years ago with a big, cosmological “bang” that brought […]
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Physicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow | MIT News
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that the new study in Physical Review […]
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Search reveals eight new sources of black hole echoes | MIT News
Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes — immensely […]
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Astronomers discover a rare “black widow” binary, with the shortest orbit yet | MIT News
The flashing of a nearby star has drawn MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious […]
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Astronomers snap first-ever image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* | MIT News
Black holes are invisible by nature. Their pull is inescapable, forever trapping any light that […]
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Planet-forming disks around very low-mass stars are different
Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk […]
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How the universe got its magnetic field | MIT News
When we look out into space, all of the astrophysical objects that we see are […]