Banner illustration by Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine. From March 22 – 25, 2021 CIERA hosted a meeting for 210 participants called TRiple EvolutioN and DYnamics...
The 18th issue (March 2021) of LIGO Magazine is available for download: https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue18.pdf In this issue, CIERA’s Eve Chase and Caitlin Rose (University of...
Professor Wen-fai Fong has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for...
We are pleased to announce the following postdoctoral researchers joining CIERA this summer and fall, 2021. Welcome! CIERA Postdoctoral Fellows Tarraneh Eftekhari (Harvard) joins...
Dr. Christopher Berry, a research professor at Northwestern and lecturer at the University of Glasgow, has been named this year’s recipient of a Young...
In 2018, astronomers were shocked to find a bizarre explosion in a galaxy 200 million light-years away. It wasn’t like any normal supernova seen...
When the first black hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. With gravitational waves, astronomers...
On January 29, 2021, CIERA debuted its new public outreach event CIERA Astronomy LIVE to an audience of about 45 people. The YouTube live...
Almost a decade ago, Feryal Özel and her colleagues noticed something odd. While a variety of possible black holes had been found in our galaxy, none...
Examination of Theia 456 finds its nearly 500 stars were born at same time An artistic rendering of generic stellar streams in the Milky...
Robust stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets, could facilitate its detection An artistic rendering of a series of powerful stellar flares. Credit:...
Associate Professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère was included in the Space Science category of the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 List by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list...
