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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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MIT Professor Shu-Heng Shao and Alumnus Yifan Wang Awarded 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize

April 20, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
A neutrino is represented as a sphere with the letter ‘v,’ and is shot out through space like a laser.

Physicists Propose a New Kind of Laser That Would Fire Neutrinos

April 15, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics 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

April 14, 2026
Categories: Research, Awards/Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics, Quantum Information Science

MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors

April 14, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, Biophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

Multitasking quantum sensors can measure several properties at once

April 14, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Information Science, Atomic Physics
Illustration of a lattice with balls representing electrons. The balls have arrows showing magnetism, with electricity formed in between.

How strange new ‘altermagnets’ could rewrite physics

April 13, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
First half of CMS inner tracker barrel

Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle

April 7, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
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Experiments dim hopes for sterile neutrinos

April 7, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
A conceptual illustration of a glowing atom model superimposed over spiraling, golden clock faces with Roman numerals, set against a dark, starry cosmos.

Keeping Perfect Time

April 6, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Atomic Physics
Hundreds of parallel lines comprised of spheres recede into the distance. In the middle ground are seven large red dots and a white 3D arrow pointing up.

Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worlds

April 2, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Aerial view of a yellow church with a green dome and tall steeple in the center of a town, surrounded by buildings and trees.

Kiyoshi Masui Helps Transform Deep-Space Signals into Cathedral Sound

April 2, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Two physicists and a curious host walk into a studio…

March 30, 2026
Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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