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Aprajita Hajela Wins NASA Future Investigator Award
For a dozen years, the four science divisions (Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate have...
Monica Gallegos Garcia Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia was awarded a fellowship within the distinguished Ford Foundation Fellowship...
“Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst”
“An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion. This explosive event (known...
What Next for Gravitational Wave Detection?
Researchers are using gravitational waves to better understand black holes. LIGO’s detectors are sensitive to stellar mass black holes up to...
LIGO on Lookout for 8 Sources of Gravitational Waves
“Seekers of gravitational waves are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Since the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory turned on in 2015,...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
CIERA Graduate Student Michael Zevin Research Featured in AAS Nova
“The dense, chaotic centers of star clusters may be a birthplace for binary pairs of black holes like those observed by...