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New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes.

March 6, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society

November 3, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, URM STEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A magnetar in outburst

Astronomers report first detection of ultrabright radio flashes in our own galaxy

November 3, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

October 28, 2020
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Flowers in vase

Beautiful, Impractical Physics

October 28, 2020
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
Two people in clean suits inspecting a mirror-testing apparatus.

Designing new mirror materials for better gravitational-wave detection

October 27, 2020
Categories: Research, Profile, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Andrea Ghez ’87 awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 27, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Q&A, In The News, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How to Measure the Speed of Light With a Bar of Chocolate and Your Microwave

October 21, 2020
Categories: In The News, Students & Alumni

Daniel Harlow awarded Packard Foundation Fellowship

October 19, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

Why a Perfect Spiral Football Pass Doesn’t Break the Laws of Physics

October 15, 2020
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus

Kofi Blake is bringing people together

October 12, 2020
Categories: Profile, Students & Alumni, URM STEM

Phiala Shanahan wins 2021 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from APS Physics

October 7, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Three MIT alumni awarded 2020 MacArthur “genius” grants

October 7, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Students & Alumni, WiSTEM, URM STEM
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