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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

Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.

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

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An artist concept depicts TESS in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.

Ushering in the next phase of exoplanet discovery

May 3, 2018
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Sydney Miller, Graduate Programs Administrator

Physics Graduate Programs Administrator Sydney Miller wins 2018 Infinite Mile Award

April 3, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Admin Staff
CTP Professors Hong Liu, Jesse Thaler, William Detmold, Daniel Harlow, Tracy Slatyer, and Aram Harrow share a moment during a panel discussion on the future of theoretical physics.

Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years

March 28, 2018
Categories: Awards/Honors, Labs & Centers, Events, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, Quantum Information Science, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Scott Hughes

3Q: Scott Hughes on cosmic distances and the future of gravitational wave astronomy

October 16, 2017
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
Rainer Weiss at home early this morning, after learning that he has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics.

MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics

October 3, 2017
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Faculty highlight: Senthil Todadri

February 6, 2017
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
Lintel in Lobby of Building 7 says

Ten from the Department of Physics honored by the American Physical Society

October 19, 2016
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Pappalardo Fellows, WiSTEM, URM STEM
Nergis Mavalvala

The Beauty of Black Hole Collisions

June 29, 2016
Categories: Q&A, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Robert Birgeneau

Robert Birgeneau to receive Vannevar Bush award

April 21, 2016
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?

November 3, 2014
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory, Astrophysics Theory

The Hunt for the Invisible Axion

May 1, 2014
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory

Faculty highlight: Raymond Ashoori

March 7, 2014
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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