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Two black holes with misaligned accretion disks on the cusp of merging

A boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answers

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes

March 26, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Close-up of a quantum processor suspended inside a cryogenic dilution refrigerator, showing intricate gold-colored wiring and circular components.

Closing in on superconducting semiconductors

June 16, 2025
Categories: Research, Labs & Centers, Academic Staff, Condensed Matter Experiment
Riccardo Comin stands in his lab, filled with cables and large equipment.

Comin Wins Bessel Award

June 10, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment

New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy

June 8, 2025
Categories: Labs & Centers, Faculty/Emeritus, Plasma Physics

Physicists observe a new form of magnetism for the first time

June 4, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
three transparent cubes contain different items in different shapes and sizes

MIT researchers use Frontier to model the density, pressure inside neutron stars

June 1, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Eight with MIT ties win 2025 Hertz Foundation Fellowships

June 1, 2025
Categories: Awards/Honors, Undergraduates, WiSTEM

$20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT 

May 27, 2025
Categories: Education, Labs & Centers
photo of GlueX detector system in laboratory

First-of-its-kind measurement may help physicists learn about gluons, which hold together nuclei in atoms

May 25, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment, Nuclear Physics Experiment
Far side of the moon

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? Scientists may have an answer

May 22, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Theory
a lattice separates two groups of four electrons

MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a magnet

May 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory
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Using a fermionic neural network to find the ground state of fractional quantum Hall liquids

May 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Theory
image of many galaxies with one bright starbust in middle

Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe

May 19, 2025
Categories: Research, Pappalardo Fellows, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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