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Big yellow and small red molecules collide in the middle of the image, in a burst. 4 arrows indicate the back-and-forth reactions that this collision causes.

Physicists observe rare resonance in molecules for the first time

February 1, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics
A unique device is made of sandwiched layers, with yellow and purple on top and blue on bottom. The middle layer is dark grey representing 2 layers of graphene, and the inset shows the graphene layers creating a moiré pattern. The device has a central rectangular shape with 7 more rectangular shapes emanating from it.

Study: Superconductivity switches on and off in “magic-angle” graphene

January 30, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
A grid of computer screens each have atom icons inside, each containing 1 or 2 icons. Color overlays divide the image into 4 colorful quadrants.

Can you trust your quantum simulator?

January 18, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science
computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging

What Does it Take to Make Black Holes Collide?

January 5, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Rendering shows a unique thermometer with various transparent tubes snaking out. Purple energy flows and connects two sides of the thermometer, and the temperature is hot.

New quantum computing architecture could be used to connect large-scale devices

January 5, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Information Science

Strengthening electron-triggered light emission

January 4, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Joshua Foster

Hunting for Axions in the Galactic Center

December 13, 2022
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Theory

Study: Without more data, a black hole’s origins can be “spun” in any direction

December 9, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A wormhole is depicted as a two-ended funnel connecting two planes with data written on them, as a beam of light travels through the resulting corridor.

MIT researchers use quantum computing to observe entanglement

December 1, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
A black hole, like a black circle with a white outline, is surrounded by a cloudy disc, and yellow rays shoot out from the top and bottom of the black hole.

Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say

November 30, 2022
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

The task of magnetic classification suddenly looks easier

November 28, 2022
Categories: Research, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory
3-D modeled illustration depicts the DART mission, and shows a boxy spacecraft with blue jets and solar panel wings approaching a bulky meteor.

Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions

October 19, 2022
Categories: Research, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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