AXIS mission selected as NASA Astrophysics Probe competition finalist
MIT Kavli Institute scientists and collaborators will produce a concept study to launch a $1B experiment to investigate the X-ray universe.
MIT Kavli Institute scientists and collaborators will produce a concept study to launch a $1B experiment to investigate the X-ray universe.
System observed 8,000 light-years away may be the first direct evidence of “gentle” black hole formation.
The quasars appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago.
Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.
By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika Ďurovčíková is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed.
In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.
The results offer a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their evolution across the universe.
The observations suggest some of earliest “monster” black holes grew from massive cosmic seeds.
The award recognizes exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service at MIT.
She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?”
Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas.
The detections more than double the number of known tidal disruption events in the nearby universe.
The MIT-led Cosmic Explorer project aims to detect gravitational waves from the earliest universe.
After the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year in service, astronomers are awash in new observations that illuminate the oldest stars and galaxies.