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A primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars with the sun in the background.

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.

September 17, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory

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A primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars with the sun in the background.

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds

September 17, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory

Robert Simcoe, Director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to receive 2024 Muhlmann Award

September 16, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
Image shows vein-like connections, in purple, spreading across galaxies connecting celestial bodies.

Study: Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles

September 13, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Astrophysics Theory
AI generated image of neural network

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

September 11, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students
3 by 3 grid of headshots of 2024-25 MLK Scholars

MIT welcomes nine MLK Scholars for 2024-25

September 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty

Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano

September 9, 2024
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A golden fluid streams across horizontally in front of a green undulating wall.

Atoms on the edge

September 6, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Nurturing success

September 3, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled Moiré Superlattices

Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled moiré superlattices

September 2, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory
builder with a KAN diagram inset in a block

A new way to build neural networks could make AI more understandable

August 30, 2024
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students
Sally Kornbluth speaking at a podium

President Kornbluth welcomes the Class of 2028

August 27, 2024
Categories: In The News
Tracy Slatyer poses in front of blackboard covered in physics equations

What If We Never Find Dark Matter?

August 20, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory
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