First large-scale numerical simulation of black hole-neutron star merger matches puzzling observations Last year, Northwestern University researchers uncovered new observational evidence that long gamma-ray...
On July 31, 2023, CIERA Professor Wen-fai Fong was selected as an AT&T Research Fellow by Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. This...
From July 10 to July 14, 2023 49 in-person and 38 remote participants from around the world attended the 4th annual Code/Astro workshop, a...
New study is first to determine how much stars should innately twinkle Many people know that stars appear to twinkle because our atmosphere bends...
Never-before-seen scenario suggests a new way to destroy a star Artist’s Impression of a gamma-ray burst. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani While searching...
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...
On May 27, 2023, CIERA Research Assistant Professor Aaron Geller and former NSF Graduate Fellow Alex Gurvich were featured on the American Astronomical Society...
On May 18, 2023, Dr. Nia Imara, astrophysicist and visual artist, presented CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium to 55 individuals at The Block Museum. Her talk,...
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are very excited to introduce CIERA’s largest-ever cohort of incoming Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates! They will bring a wide...
Astrophysicists discover the closest and oldest ultracool dwarf binary ever observed Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) astrophysicists...
Large and complex data sets are often filled with hidden gems waiting to be discovered. In a joint venture with Northwestern IT’s Research...
