Birth of a Black Hole or Neutron Star Captured for First Time
“A Northwestern University-led international team is getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer. On...
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Sasha Tchekhovskoy Receives High-Performance Computing Award
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy was granted the highly-competitive 2019 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award for his research proposal,Simulating Neutron...
Four New Gravitational-Wave Detections
New detections and analysis of gravitational waves – announced Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park, Maryland...
CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti Group Research Featured in Nature Magazine
“For many astronomers, 2018 will be remembered as the Year of the Cow — after the nickname of a spectacular stellar explosion that has...
Phil Nicholson Presents CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Joint with EPS
Starting off the 2018-2019 academic year, Phil Nicholson, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, presented his talk, Cassini’s Grand Finale to an audience of...
Astronomers Witness Birth of New Star from Stellar Explosion
“The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host galaxies. They take months or years to fade away,...
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...
Another Way for Stellar-mass Black Holes to Grow Larger
A trio of researchers with The University of Hong Kong, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan and Northwestern University in the...
Profs. Wen-fai Fong, Raffaella Margutti and Team Create First-ever Movie of Gamma-ray Burst
“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,...
Brice Ménard Presents CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On June 4, Professor Brice Ménard from Johns Hopkins University presented How Do You Want Your Data: Hot or Cold? to an audience of...
New Study: LISA Observatory to Detect Globular Cluster Binaries in the Milky Way
The historic first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes far outside our galaxy opened a new window to understanding the universe. A...
Nature Astronomy Perspective: Professor Faucher-Giguère on Progress & Challenges in Galaxy Formation Simulation Field
The Galaxy Formation Group at Northwestern has played an important role in several of the significant developments in the field these past five years....