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Two black holes with misaligned accretion disks on the cusp of merging

A boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answers

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes

March 25, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Composite of 4 images of SPT Clusters

Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years

January 10, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Thousands of tiny lights hang from the ceiling of an at least 15-story hotel-style atrium. They are seen from the ground looking up.

Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications

January 7, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
A Bose–Einstein condensate emerges from a cloud of cold rubidium atoms

Coldest: how a letter to Einstein and advances in laser-cooling technology led physicists to new quantum states of matter

January 1, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Atomic Physics

Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles

December 29, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Four planets in space with one having a thinner atmosphere cloud than the rest

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

December 27, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Members of a general meeting of SPS meet

MIT Physics Students Win National Recognition

December 21, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates
artistic interpretation of brain-like computing

New brain-like transistor mimics human intelligence

December 19, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
student standing in street posing

The science and art of complex systems

December 19, 2023
Categories: Profile, Undergraduates
three students sit at desk with others sitting in gallery

In defense of dark skies

December 17, 2023
Categories: In The News, Undergraduates, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Ronald Garcia Ruiz named a Popular Science “Brilliant 10”

December 11, 2023
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Aurora supercomputer machinery

Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer to help scientists advance dark matter research

December 10, 2023
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

December 7, 2023
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory
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