Prof. Mel Ulmer Featured in Sky at Night Magazine
“The $8 billion-plus James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the most advanced telescope ever sent into space when it’s launched in 2020. Its...
“The $8 billion-plus James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the most advanced telescope ever sent into space when it’s launched in 2020. Its...
A trio of researchers with The University of Hong Kong, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan and Northwestern University in the...
“Astronomers using telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) studied a cataclysmic stellar explosion known as a gamma-ray burst,...
The historic first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes far outside our galaxy opened a new window to understanding the universe. A...
The Galaxy Formation Group at Northwestern has played an important role in several of the significant developments in the field these past five years....
How many black holes lurk within the dense environments of globular clusters, and how do these powerful objects shape the properties of the cluster...
The existence of large numbers of molecules in winds powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has puzzled astronomers since they...
Through first-of-their-kind supercomputer simulations, researchers have gained new insight into one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astronomy: the behavior of relativistic jets...
Understanding how stars and planets are created is one of the main challenges of modern astronomy. The study of stellar birth is one of...
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and...
At 11:00pm on June 7, 2017, Eve Chase was preparing for a final exam when she received an email that LIGO, the tandem observatories...
Northwestern is known for its strength in theoretical astrophysics, and now it is poised to lead in observational astronomy as well. CIERA recently signed...