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This illustration shows a primordial black hole (PBH) inside a Sun-like star. New simulations show that if a star captured a PBH, there are two potential outcomes. One sees the star destroyed rapidly, the other sees the PBH gradually consume the star. Image Credit: MPA, background image: Wikimedia/Creative Commons.

What Happens to a Star That Captures A Primordial Black Hole?

Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory
A scientific diagram illustrating the shell-model orbital structures of three nuclei—Calcium-40, Calcium-48, and Iron-54—using concentric rings with red neutrons and blue protons, alongside a lower-right schematic of an electron scattering reaction.

Quantum shell structure reveals new rule for proton-neutron pairing inside nuclei

Categories: Research, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
A black hole’s spinning energy, like a flat pancake.

MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar

Categories: Research, Faculty, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Daniel Harlow poses in front of blackboard full of colorful equations

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Senior Research Scientist Jagadeesh Moodera poses in front of a molecular beam epitaxy system

Magnetic Topological Materials Could Revolutionize Energy-Efficient Electronics

Categories: Research, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment
Two black holes in the center of swirling matter

A new way to spot signs of dark matter

Categories: Research, Postdocs, Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
A layered sculpture resembling zig-zag patterns and geometric shapes

Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
An illustration shows two black holes relatively close to each other against a starry space background.

Astronomers may have found a record-breaking pair of black holes

Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Two planets in space, a smaller blue planet and a large red planet. On left a blue icy planet has ice shards floating around it.

Astronomers pin down the origins of a planetary odd couple

Categories: Research, Visiting Faculty, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

A materials scientist’s playground

Categories: Research, Faculty
At left, deep space image with many galaxies. At right, aerial view of Oulu Cathedral

Transforming deep-space signals into cathedral sound

Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
AI-generated abstract digital illustration of two glowing, circular sensors connected by multiple colorful wavy lines against a dark, starry background.

MIT Estimates 3 Parameters With Quantum Sensor

Categories: Research, Awards/Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics, Quantum Information Science
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