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NASA’s Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
Neutron-Star Collision Releases Puzzling Burst of Infrared Light Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays...
Growing Library of Educational Brochures by CIERA Astronomers
A new educational brochure series has debuted from CIERA, highlighting various topics in astrophysics research at Northwestern. The brochures are written...
The Low Spin of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org Learn more about this image. Researchers from CIERA and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian...
Star ‘Spaghettified’ by a Supermassive Black Hole
Image Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Learn more about this image. An international team of astronomers including CIERA scientists Dr. Kate D. Alexander...
CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Members Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet
This fall, we are excited to welcome Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet to CIERA as two new astrophysics faculty members. Ryan...
Beverly Lowell Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Second-year CIERA graduate student Beverly Lowell was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship for the upcoming year and received...
Danat Issa Awarded Frontera Computational Science Fellowship
CIERA graduate student Danat Issa was awarded the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship, a distinguished program that provides a year-long opportunity for...
CIERA REU Students Present at 235th Meeting of the AAS
Students from CIERA’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program and the LSSTC Enabling Science program presented their research projects at...
Jeremy Schnittman Presents Interdisciplinary Colloquium Inspired by ‘Interstellar’
Dr. Jeremy Schnittman, research astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for 10 years, presented his talk Life on Miller’s...
Rate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers From Star Clusters Much Lower than Previously Thought
A group of theoretical and observational astronomers from CIERA, Harvard, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have found...