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MIT in the media: 2024 in review

December 23, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
A black hole animation of the event horizon. It shows the swirling orange material around the central black void.

Do black holes really evaporate — and how do we know?

December 20, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory
illustration of colliding protogalaxies

When everything in the universe changed

December 18, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Jordan Rudess and Joseph Paradiso speak to each other on a black stage with white petals interspersed among them

A model of virtuosity

November 18, 2024
Categories: In The News, Alumni
9 Students pose against a bank of cherry blossoms in front of the Washington Monument

Making a mark in the nation’s capital

November 18, 2024
Categories: In The News, Alumni
Five people sit on stage during a panel.

Ensuring a durable transition

November 14, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
this map of dark matter in the universe was obtained from data from the kids survey, using the vlt survey telescope at eso’s paranal observatory in chile it reveals an expansive web of dense light and empty dark regions this image is one out of five patches of the sky observed by kids here the invisible dark matter is seen rendered in pink, covering an area of sky around 420 times the size of the full moon

Can Axions Save the Universe?

October 31, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
illustration of black hole with geometric orbs inside

The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

November 2, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus
Illustration of Dark Matter and gas in simulation

Happy Dark Matter Day! Meet the usual — and unusual — suspects in this cosmic mystery

October 30, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Alan Guth sits speaking animatedly on a panel

It all started with a Big Bang – the quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe

October 30, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Astrophysics Theory
A hand attempts to capture a single droplet of water with a pair of chopsticks, above concentric water ripples.

It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All

October 29, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Five people sit before a group discussing Physics, AI and the future of discovery

Physics, AI, and the future of discovery

October 31, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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