LIGO Team Announces Second Gravitational-Wave Event
The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and...
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‘Mosh Pits’ in Star Clusters a Likely Source of LIGO’s First Black Holes
In a new study, CIERA astrophysics show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic merger of two massive black holes detected Sept....
CIERA Researchers Help Build a Far-Infrared Camera for SOFIA
An infrared camera called the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus (HAWC+) was installed on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, this spring. This is...
Major Prizes for LIGO Founders and 1,012 Contributors to Gravitational-Wave Discovery
Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and physicist, is giving $3 million as a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to honor the...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel Wins Prestigious Jansky Fellowship
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel will be leaving Chicago for Virginia next year, as one of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO’s) Jansky fellows....
Roger Malina Discusses Hybrid Art-Sciences Practices at CIERA Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Roger F. Malina shared the story of his career, including the strong influence of his father, who became a full-time artist following a successful...
CIERA Contributes to the Historic First Detection of Gravitational Waves
On February 11, 2016 the National Science Foundation and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that their scientists successfully, for the first time, directly...
Olivier Guyon Looks to Characterize Habitable Exoplanets: CIERA Winter Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Thanks to significant recent advances in high contrast imaging techniques, the next generation of space and ground telescopes will have the capability to image...
CIERA’s Geller and Faucher-Giguère Contribute to New Study in “Nature”
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, an international research team, including Aaron Geller and Claude-André Faucher-Giguère from Northwestern-CIERA and astronomers from the Kavli...
American Astronomical Society to Lead WorldWide Telescope
The Council of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) voted to take on the leadership of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project at the AAS winter...
Dennis Lehmkuhl Shares the History of Einstein’s Discoveries at CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Colloquium
We are often told that General Relativity tells us that the gravitational field is nothing but an aspect of spacetime structure: gravitation supposedly is...
2015 Midwest Relativity Meeting Hosted by CIERA
October 1 – 3, 2015, CIERA hosted the Midwest Relativity Meeting (MRM) with over 100 participants from across North America, including some of the...