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Listening for the echoes of black holes

By analyzing X-ray reverberations and other astrophysical data, Erin Kara seeks to understand the most extreme objects in the universe.

June 26, 2026
Categories: Profile, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Are Space and Time Created by Quantum Error Correction – Video

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings

Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment

MIT affiliates, including named 2024 AAAS Fellows

Categories: Awards/Honors, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment

Professor Emeritus Earle Lomon, nuclear theorist, dies at 94

Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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MIT scientists engineer starfish cells to shape-shift in response to light

Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science

Professor Emeritus Lee Grodzins, pioneer in nuclear physics, dies at 98

Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

A dive into the “almost magical” potential of photonic crystals

Categories: Profile, Faculty, Condensed Matter Theory

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025

Categories: In The News, Education
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MIT Physics Celebrates Professor Irwin Pless’s 100th birthday on March 11, 2025

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
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Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Atomic Physics
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These New Planets Aren’t Real, But Science Says They Could Be

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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