First Gravitational Waves Detection from Neutron Star Colliding with a Black Hole
“The first month of LIGO-Virgo’s third observing run has been truly amazing, potentially bringing us the discovery of the so far missing third, hybrid...
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A New Infrared Camera for Exoplanet Imaging
Researchers from Northwestern’s Bio-Inspired Sensors and Optoelectronics Laboratory (BISOL) announced they developed a novel highly sensitive infrared camera that could help with directly imaging...
CIERA’s Paul Williams on Studying Star Formation in Antarctica
By Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Astronomer Paul Williams was one of 15 researchers who embarked on a two month long trip to a volcanic island...
CIERA’s Aaron Geller Awarded LSSTC Enabling Science Grant to Fund Undergraduate Research
For the third year in a row, Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller was awarded an Enabling Science Grant from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation...
CIERA Faculty Comment on World’s First Image of a Black Hole
When the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the world’s first image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, the excitement was...
Reach for the Stars Teacher Mark Vondracek Wins Physics Teacher’s Award
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Mark Vondracek was given the 2019 International Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) Teacher’s Award for outstanding achievement in teaching contemporary...
Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Two Potential Black Hole Collisions in a Week
“Less than two weeks after the gravitational wave detectors turned back on, they’ve already seen evidence of two pairs of colliding black holes. Scientists...
Professor Margutti’s Paper Among Top Ten in 2018
American Astronomical Society Publishing announced their top-cited papers from 2018, including an electromagnetic observation paper led by Professor Raffaella Margutti. Overall, the AAS journals...
Vicky Kalogera Hosts Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss for 2019 Heilborn Lecture Series
“Rainer Weiss, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the historic observation of gravitational waves, will deliver the Heilborn Lectures at...
Sean Raymond on Solar System Formation at CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
The past decade of exoplanet observations has confirmed one of humanity’s worst fears: we are weird. Jupiter is the only planet in the solar...
CIERA’s Researchers Featured in Gizmodo Ahead of LIGO and Virgo’s Resumed Search for Gravitational Waves
“The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are set to resume their hunt for gravitational waves on April 1. This go-around, they’ll be even...
Eight New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s...