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Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?

January 29, 2025
Categories: Research, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
CHIME, the large radio telescope.

Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space

January 24, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Energy swirls around a black hole, and a white dwarf, like a sphere, trails matter. Blue energy goes toward the center of the black hole.

X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously

January 13, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
graphic of neutron star in the Crab Nebula, as seen in various wavelengths

Drilling into Neutron Stars with Computers

January 6, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A neutron star emitting a radio beam

MIT scientists pin down the origins of a fast radio burst

January 1, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Physicists magnetize a material with light

December 18, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Illustration shows rainbow-hued particles uniformly distributed on a deep blue background. A pair of circles labeled

MIT physicists predict exotic form of matter with potential for quantum computing

November 18, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Theory
An aerial view of the Virgo site shows the Mode-Cleaner building, the Central building, the 3km-long west arm and the beginning of the north arm.

We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find

September 19, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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

MIT astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars

May 6, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
In the center of a black background is a large circular object outlined by electric blue filaments that jolt and weave throughout the structure. The object, which is the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, includes strings of vibrant colors including purple, orange, yellow and blue.

A NASA telescope unlocked the mysteries of black holes. Now it’s on the chopping block

April 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A large black hole has a spinning disk around it. It also has a magnetic field represented as an orange cone on top and bottom of the black hole. A tiny black hole punches in and out through the disk as it orbits the larger one. Plumes from the large disk emerge when the tiny black hole travels. The plumes are especially strong in the magnetic fields.

Persistent “hiccups” in a far-off galaxy draw astronomers to new black hole behavior

March 27, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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