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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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The experimental realization of quantum overlapping tomography

Categories: Research, Faculty, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Professor Phiala Shanahan posing in front of chalkboard filled with equations and her name spelled out with scientific symbols.

Phiala Shanahan is seeking fundamental answers about our physical world

Categories: Profile, Faculty, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Artist’s rendition of skyrmions, exotic particles represented by the whirls of red, yellow, and white arrows.

MIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give “recipe” for realizing them

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory
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Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds

Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Why Are So Many Women Now Leading Ivies? Thank These Female MIT Scientists

Categories: In The News, Education, Faculty, WiSTEM
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Garcia Ruiz and Kara named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Against a pink background, a blue and red laser beam shoot down from the top as wavey arrows. They point to a beige atomic nucleus with a gauge needle in the center pointing left, signifying spin direction.

Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
Frank Wilczek on stage at a Nobel Laureate Lecture

Q&A with Frank Wilczek On Different Universes, String Theory, Gravitation, Newton & Big Bang

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Astronaut Ronald McNair directs a movie from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger.

How NASA’s breakthrough ‘class of ’78’ changed the face of space travel

Categories: In The News, Graduate Students, Alumni, URM STEM
A yellow-lit closeup zooms in on one tiny, rectangular amplifier on the wafer. It has a chain-like rectangular grid in center that connects to the left and right edges of the wafer.

Scientists boost quantum signals while reducing noise

Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
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Accelerating astrophysics with the SpaceX Starship

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up

Categories: In The News, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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