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Anna-Christina Eilers sits at her desk, smiling warmly at two female students who sit facing her

Looking beyond research

Professor Anna-Christina Eilers is “Committed to Caring” for building a culture around attentiveness and community.

July 23, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Profile, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Illustration of 2022 Physics Nobel Laureates: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

They Probed Quantum Entanglement While Everyone Shrugged

Categories: In The News, Faculty
The huge sun-like star, left, looks like a blue balloon that turns orange as it’s being sucked into the tiny white dwarf’s orbit. The white dwarf looks like a mini-galaxy, with a blue center and orange rings. The background is black with tiny stars.

Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet

Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Franklin Chang-Diaz ScD ’77 – Astronaut and CEO

Categories: Profile, In The News, Students, Alumni
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Peter Shor wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
JWST's First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

Categories: In The News, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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Kurt Gottfried PhD ’55, Physicist and Foe of Nuclear Weapons, Dies at 93

Categories: In The News, In Remembrance, Alumni
Visualization of simulated black hole and its accretion disk

A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

MIT students contribute to success of historic fusion experiment

Categories: In The News, Students, Graduate Students, Alumni
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Postdoc Yuan Cao named to Nature‘s 10

Categories: Awards/Honors, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Deepto Chakrabarty named head of the Department of Physics

Categories: Education, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Artist's concept of the probe after being deployed by the spacecraft toward Venus. Courtesy of Rocket Lab

The first private mission to Venus will have just five minutes to hunt for life

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How Physicists Cracked a Black Hole Paradox

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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