New study further narrows the search for elusive pairs of monster black holes Although astrophysicists have never sensed supermassive black hole binary systems, a...
Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the...
Virtual press briefing about new finding took place on Monday, June 5 at 242nd American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting So far, astrophysicists have only...
Elusive intermediate-mass black holes take a few bites, then eject the leftovers If they exist, intermediate-mass black holes likely devour wayward stars like a...
On April 13, 2023, 43 individuals gathered to hear Dr. Tyson Littenburg present CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium. His talk, “Data Science Challenges in Gravitational Wave...
On Monday, March 13, 2023, CIERA welcomed 350 in-person and over 300 remote gravitational wave researchers to Northwestern University for the spring meeting of...
On March 30, 2023, 55 individuals gathered to hear Professor David Bercovici present CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium. His talk, “Origin, Evolution and Habitability of Planet...
On February 21, 2023, 82 individuals gathered to hear Dr. Edwin Kite, who studies the evolution of rocky planets, present CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium....
Stunning new time lapse video shows 12 years of exoplanets orbiting their star In 2008, HR8799 was the first extrasolar planetary system ever directly...
An international team of scientists including CIERA Professor Jason Wang have used the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite to detect a new exoplanet undergoing...
Astrophysicists discover the closest and oldest ultracool dwarf binary ever observed Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) astrophysicists...
The Local Group Cluster Search, a Zooniverse project led by CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow and Adler Planetarium Zooniverse Science Lead & Co-Director Cliff Johnson, recently...
