Northwestern Leads Effort to Detect New Types of Cosmic Events
“A team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University is poised to lead gravitational-wave astronomy into its next evolution. The W. M. Keck Foundation...
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Fred Rasio Receives 2019 Brouwer Award
“Northwestern University theoretical astrophysicist Fred Rasio has received the 2019 Dirk Brouwer Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA). The annual award...
“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 as gamma-ray burst...
Most-detailed Simulations of Black Hole Solve Longstanding Mystery
“An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the...
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...
IDEAS Fellows Contribute to New Seismology Citizen Science Project
“Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution. This winter, a Northwestern team of students and faculty...
CIERA’s Raffaella Margutti Named Sloan Research Fellow
Three Northwestern University faculty members — mathematician Bao Le Hung, astrophysicist Raffaella Margutti and biomedical engineer Jonathan Rivnay — each have been awarded a...
Birth of a Black Hole or Neutron Star Captured for First Time
“A Northwestern University-led international team is getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer. On...
“Galactic Bloom” Takes 2nd Place & Student Choice Award in ‘Beauty of Science’ Contest
Astrophysics doctoral students Zach Hafen and Alex Gurvich have taken home the prizes for second place and Student Choice Award in the Science in...
Four New Gravitational-Wave Detections
New detections and analysis of gravitational waves – announced Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park, Maryland...
Fred Rasio Named AAAS Fellow, for Extraordinary Achievement in Advancing Science
Professor Fred Rasio has been elected a 2018 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Recognized...
CIERA Celebrates a Decade Of Discovery
“As director of Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics(CIERA), Vicky Kalogera has traveled the globe to talk about things beyond this world. Connecting the...