Erin Kara named Edgerton Award winner
The award recognizes exceptional distinction in teaching, research, and service at MIT.
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.
Physicist Daniel Harlow explores an alternate quantum reality in search of fundamental truths to our physical universe.
The next run will be the most sensitive search yet for gravitational waves.
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.
The observations will help astronomers pin down the physics of the plasma around black holes.
The 2D map of this “disk wind” may reveal clues to galaxy formation.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.
Those selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.