Rate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers From Star Clusters Much Lower than Previously Thought
A group of theoretical and observational astronomers from CIERA, Harvard, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) have found that the rates...
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Supercomputer Award Granted to CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University, was granted the highly-competitive 2020 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory...
“Giant balloon-like structures discovered at center of Milky Way”
“An international team of astronomers, including Northwestern’s Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, has discovered one of the largest structures ever observed in the Milky Way. A newly...
“Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions”
“The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written. After the extremely...
Professor Raffaella Margutti Named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Joining the “Gravity & the Extreme Universe” program, assistant professor Raffaella Margutti has been named by CIFAR one of 14 international early-career researchers with...
“Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead star”
“Some 900 million years ago, a black hole released a terrible belch that echoed through the cosmos. On August 14, the resulting ripples in the...
20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory
2019 marks 20 years of superb performance by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The CXC is planning a number of events and products for the...
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...
CIERA Faculty Comment on World’s First Image of a Black Hole
When the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the world’s first image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, the excitement was...
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 black holes. Scientists...
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 the Laser Interferometer...
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...