Statement of Principles and Values
CIERA stands with our fellow community members against racist policing at Northwestern. We reaffirm our commitment to racial equity and justice in higher education...
News
2020 Midwest Relativity Meeting Blue Apple Awarded to Lindsay DeMarchi
Graduate student Lindsay DeMarchi won the Blue Apple award at the 2020 Midwest Relativity Meeting for her talk “Multi Messenger Observations of TZOs”. A...
The Low Spin of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org Learn more about this image. Researchers from CIERA and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian put a limit...
Star ‘Spaghettified’ by a Supermassive Black Hole
Image Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Learn more about this image. An international team of astronomers including CIERA scientists Dr. Kate D. Alexander and Dr. Peter...
Update on Initiative for Social Justice
CIERA is committed to creating a welcoming, safe, and inclusive community for everyone. Every person connected to CIERA, including its visitors, upholds our shared...
CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Members Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet
This fall, we are excited to welcome Ryan Chornock and Daniel Lecoanet to CIERA as two new astrophysics faculty members. Ryan Chornock joins as...
CIERA Postdocs Move on to New Positions
Congratulations to Ian Christie, Kyle Kremer, Mario Spera, and Jonathan Stern — the newest postdoctoral alumni from CIERA. Ian Christie will begin a new...
Observations of Andromeda’s Halo Test Predictions of Galaxy Formation Models by CIERA Scientists
“A Halo for Andromeda” Credit: NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale and E. Wheatley (STScI) and Z. Levay Northwestern professor Claude-André Faucher-Giguère and recent PhD graduate...
Scientists detect first-of-its-kind ‘intermediate-mass‘ black hole
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. Credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno, and the SXS Collaboration...
Do Short Gamma-ray Bursts Produce Magnetars? Radio Observations Say: Probably Not
The Milky Way Galaxy seen over the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array west of Socorro, New Mexico. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Jeff Hellerman A group...
CIERA’s REU Program Goes Virtual!
This summer, CIERA hosted 11 undergraduate students as a part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Adjusted for a remote experience, the...
CIERA High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy Goes Remote!
The CIERA High School Summer Research Experience in Astronomy at Northwestern provided an interactive, hands-on astronomy research experience for high school students remotely this...