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A black hole’s spinning energy, like a flat pancake.

MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar

When the universe was just 850 million years old, this voracious black hole was already surprisingly mature, a new study finds.

June 8, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars with the sun in the background.

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds

September 16, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory

Robert Simcoe, Director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to receive 2024 Muhlmann Award

September 15, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
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 12, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Astrophysics Theory
AI generated image of neural network

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

September 10, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students
3 by 3 grid of headshots of 2024-25 MLK Scholars

MIT welcomes nine MLK Scholars for 2024-25

September 10, 2024
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty

Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano

September 8, 2024
Categories: Education, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A golden fluid streams across horizontally in front of a green undulating wall.

Atoms on the edge

September 5, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Nurturing success

September 2, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled Moiré Superlattices

Study predicts a new quantum anomalous crystal in fractionally filled moiré superlattices

September 1, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory
builder with a KAN diagram inset in a block

A new way to build neural networks could make AI more understandable

August 29, 2024
Categories: In The News, Graduate Students
Sally Kornbluth speaking at a podium

President Kornbluth welcomes the Class of 2028

August 26, 2024
Categories: In The News
Tracy Slatyer poses in front of blackboard covered in physics equations

What If We Never Find Dark Matter?

August 19, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory
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