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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.

August 19, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

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From the archives: Inside the tantalizing quest to sense gravity waves

May 18, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
Frank Wilczek on stage at a Nobel Laureate Lecture

A mind-blowing explanation of symmetry

May 15, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2022

May 12, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Astronomers snap first-ever image of supermassive black hole Sagitarrius A*

May 12, 2022
Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Frank Wilczek Receives 2022 Templeton Prize

May 11, 2022
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC

May 10, 2022
Categories: In The News
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana.

Astronomers find ‘gold standard’ star in Milky Way

May 10, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Undergraduate Ben Lou in motorized wheelchair wearing an MIT sweatshirt

Universities Have Returned in Person, But Some Disabled Students Don’t Want to Go Back

May 7, 2022
Categories: In The News, Education, Undergraduates
artist’s impression of the peculiar thin disc of material circling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy ngc 3147, located 130 million light years away

Listen to eerie sounds from echoing black holes

May 6, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
An image at night of the Great Dome on the MIT campus

MIT to launch new Office of Research Computing and Data

May 5, 2022
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
Peter Fisher sits on steps of Building 10

Peter Fisher to step down as head of the Department of Physics

May 5, 2022
Categories: In The News, Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Admin Staff, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment
illustrated view of a black widow pulsar

Astronomers discover a rare “black widow” binary, with the shortest orbit yet

May 4, 2022
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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