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A red sphere, left, sucks energy out of a brown sphere, causing a patch on the red sphere to glow white hot.

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

The discovery reveals a new way that stars and planetary companions can interact.

October 5, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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patiria miniata starfish

Starfish Embryos Observed Forming ‘Living Crystals’

Categories: Research, In The News, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM, Biophysics
(L to R) Abby Stein and Anjali Nambrath

Two from Physics awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships

Categories: Awards/Honors, Students, WiSTEM
A computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, detected for the first time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015.

A New Math Shortcut Helps Describe Black Hole Collisions

Categories: In The News, Academic Staff, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory

MIT turns “magic” material into versatile electronic devices

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Pappalardo Fellows, Condensed Matter Experiment

Supermassive black holes devour gas just like their petite counterparts

Categories: Research, Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration of binary code through eye of needle

Precision is Nature’s Gift to Technology

Categories: Faculty
Healthcare worker steadies needle in preparation for injecting vaccine into patient's shoulder.

A Recipe for Universal Vaccines

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Biophysics
Kofi Blake

Senior Kofi Blake named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholar

Categories: Awards/Honors, Students, URM STEM

Arup Chakraborty named Institute Professor

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Biophysics
antiferromagnetism device

Physicists find a novel way to switch antiferromagnetism on and off

Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Anjali Nambrath

Ways of seeing the world

Categories: Profile, Students, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment
Daniel Rodan-Legrain stands next to a dilution refrigerator

MIT turns “magic” material into versatile electronic devices

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
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