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 put a limit...
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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 and Dr. Peter...
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 Chornock joins as...
Scientists detect first-of-its-kind ‘intermediate-mass‘ black hole
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. Credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno, and the SXS Collaboration...
Do Short Gamma-ray Bursts Produce Magnetars? Radio Observations Say: Probably Not
The Milky Way Galaxy seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Socorro, New Mexico. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Jeff Hellerman A group...
CIERA Ranks #1 for National Postdoctoral Fellowships
Three CIERA Postdocs Win NSF Fellowships for Scientific & Educational Programs CIERA postdoctoral researchers Kyle Kremer, Patrick Sheehan, and Sarah Wellons have each won...
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 the Illinois Space...
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 talented graduate students...
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 the 235th American...
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 Planet: The Habitability...
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 that the rates...
Supercomputer Award Granted to CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University, was granted the highly-competitive 2020 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory...