Nobel-winning physicist, artist illustrate universe’s ‘warped side’

Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran team up to demystify complex science from black holes and wormholes to time travel and gravitational waves.

Anne J. Manning • harvard
Nov. 15, 2023 • ~4 min

Harvard astronomers find explanation for Milky Way’s warp

The Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian’s results bolster hypothesis of how galaxy evolved.

Anne J. Manning • harvard
Sept. 27, 2023 • ~4 min

After capturing image of black hole, what’s next?

New Center for Astrophysics mission aims for closer look at photon rings and insight into nature of space and time.

Clea Simon • harvard
Aug. 7, 2023 • ~7 min

Harvard astrophysicist on the James Webb Telescope

Harvard astrophysicist details the most ambitious space probe NASA ever built.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Dec. 16, 2021 • ~7 min

Astrophysics student’s baked treats are out of this world

Claire Lamman doubles as an astronomy graduate student at Harvard and an expert space baker.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
March 11, 2021 • ~8 min

High school students discover exoplanets during mentoring program

High schoolers discover four exoplanets through the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program.

Nadia Whitehead • harvard
Jan. 28, 2021 • ~6 min

In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries

So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
April 17, 2020 • ~8 min

Harvard study proposes new way to probe universe before the Big Bang

Harvard researchers are proposing using a “primordial standard clock” as a probe of the primordial universe. The team laid out a method that may be used to falsify the inflationary theory experimentally.

Peter Reuell • harvard
April 18, 2019 • ~7 min

Harvard scientists shed light on importance of black hole image

Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”

Peter Reuell • harvard
April 10, 2019 • ~6 min

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