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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

Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do

March 12, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Quantum Information Science

School of Science announces 2024 Infinite Expansion Awards

March 4, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, Academic Staff
Three small purple spheres are on left, and one large purple sphere is on right. A bending stream of energy is between them. Graphene layers are in the background.

Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds

February 21, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Undergraduates, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment

Researchers discover new channels to excite magnetic waves with terahertz light

February 6, 2024
Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Eight inset photos of black holes on starry background.

Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars

January 29, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How cell identity is preserved when cells divide

November 16, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Postdocs, Biophysics
Rendering of a 3D crystal structure looks like a star made up of latticed cubes and pyramids.

Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time

November 8, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
Two merging neutron stars, in blue light, circle each other. They blast out 2 jets of particles, above and below, and are surrounded by a huge ring of cloudy orange and yellow particles.

Bright flash leads astronomers to a heavy-metal factory 900 million light years away

October 25, 2023
Categories: Research, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Graphic showing the quasicrystals discovered in this research.

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

September 28, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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