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Astronomers discover star-shredding black holes hiding in dusty galaxies

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant, waking briefly to feast on a passing star.

July 27, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Unlocking the secrets of fusion’s core with AI-enhanced simulations

February 18, 2025
Categories: In The News, Plasma Physics

Viewing the universe through ripples in space

February 18, 2025
Categories: Research, Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Quantum-computing technology that makes qubits from atoms wins mega investment

February 13, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics
The Phoenix cluster of galaxies has green and purple overlays. The green overlay shows the “cooling gas” and the purple shows “jet-inflated bubbles.

Study reveals the Phoenix galaxy cluster in the act of extreme cooling

February 13, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Nergis Mavalvala poses in front of MIT dome

Superwomen of Science

February 11, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM
star being torn apart by a black hole

An astrophysicist warns of an unprecedented supermassive black hole: “We’ve never seen this”

February 7, 2025
Categories: Research, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
headshot of Professor David Kaiser

The double helix of science and democracy

February 7, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
The quarks and gluons in short-range correlated nucleons may be distributed differently

Correlated Nucleon Pairs Predict Quark-Gluon Distributions

February 6, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

3 Questions: What the laws of physics tell us about CO2 removal

February 6, 2025
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in “magic-angle” graphene

February 5, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
headshots of Netta Engelhardt and Nuno Loureiro

Engelhardt and Loureiro receive 2025 Presidential Early Career Awards

February 3, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM

Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?

January 29, 2025
Categories: Research, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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