Mysterious dashes revealed in Milky Way’s center
Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the...
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Dying stars’ cocoons could be new source of gravitational waves
Virtual press briefing about new finding took place on Monday, June 5 at 242nd American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting So far, astrophysicists have only...
Gravity Spy 2.0 gears up for the next gravitational wave observing run
As gravitational wave scientists prepared to turn their detectors back on in mid-May, the Gravity Spy Citizen Science team expanded the scope of their...
Four CIERA Members awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The 2023 awardees of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowships include four CIERA members: Elena Gonzalez Prieto, Teresita Ramirez Aguilar, Darsan Swaroop Bellie,...
Postdoc Caitlin Witt named finalist of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Thesis Award
Dr. Caitlin Witt, the CIERA-Adler Postdoctoral Fellow, was named one of three finalists for the American Physical Society’s Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in...
CIERA Associate Faculty Jian Cao Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jian Cao, the Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McCormick and an Associate Faculty of CIERA has been elected to the American Academy...
Medium-sized black holes eat stars like messy toddlers
Elusive intermediate-mass black holes take a few bites, then eject the leftovers If they exist, intermediate-mass black holes likely devour wayward stars like a...
Data Science Challenges in Gravitational Wave Surveys: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Tyson Littenburg
On April 13, 2023, 43 individuals gathered to hear Dr. Tyson Littenburg present CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium. His talk, “Data Science Challenges in Gravitational Wave...
CIERA Connections: Ben Nelson on careers in data science
On April 10, 2023, 33 in-person and 13 remote attendees gathered to hear CIERA Postdoctoral alumnus Dr. Ben Nelson present the most recent iteration...
Introducing CIERA’s Eleven New Postdocs!
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are very excited to introduce CIERA’s largest-ever cohort of incoming Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates! They will bring a wide...
Star Eyes outreach initiative communicates new science through new music
“I have long envisioned working at the intersection of my two biggest passions: science and music,” says CIERA Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow Darsan Swaroop Bellie....
International LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting hosted by CIERA
On Monday, March 13, 2023, CIERA welcomed 350 in-person and over 300 remote gravitational wave researchers to Northwestern University for the spring meeting of...