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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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Two people stand outside of Ganado Chapter House of the Navajo Nation in Ganado, AZ.

Diné MIT Graduate Cory Romanov SB ’24 Connects with Congressman David Schweikert During Navajo Nation Visit

January 24, 2025
Categories: In The News, Alumni, Academic Staff, URM STEM
CHIME, the large radio telescope.

Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space

January 24, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
three physicists in their lab

Physicists discover — and explain — unexpected magnetism in an atomically thin material

January 23, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
Rendering of a mosaic nanoparticle

A new vaccine approach could help combat future coronavirus pandemics

January 23, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Biophysics
Bia Adams sitting in a tidy living room and smiling, wearing a bulky sweater

“Forever grateful for MIT Open Learning for making knowledge accessible and fostering a network of curious minds”

January 22, 2025
Categories: Education

Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is a launching pad toward possibility

January 21, 2025
Categories: Education, Academic Staff

MIT student encourages all learners to indulge their curiosity with MIT Open Learning’s MITx

January 15, 2025
Categories: Profile, Education, Undergraduates, WiSTEM

More than an academic advisor

January 15, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Fast control methods enable record-setting fidelity in superconducting qubit

January 14, 2025
Categories: Research, Quantum Information Science
A flowchart showing part of a computational process: four rows of interconnected spheres; a vertical panel of digitized data; a 3-D molecular structure; and four bar graphs stacked vertically.

New computational chemistry techniques accelerate the prediction of molecules and materials

January 14, 2025
Categories: Research, Alumni, Nuclear Physics Experiment

Physicists measure quantum geometry for the first time

January 13, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
Energy swirls around a black hole, and a white dwarf, like a sphere, trails matter. Blue energy goes toward the center of the black hole.

X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate mysteriously

January 13, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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