Astrophysicist helps you imagine a black hole

We ask Avi Loeb, founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, to help us picture the scariest void in the universe.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Feb. 24, 2023 • ~4 min

Memo from U.S. Space Command confirms Harvard scientists’ findings

Harvard student Amir Siraj ’22 and Professor Avi Loeb have found the earliest known meteor from another solar system to hit Earth, with the results confirmed by U.S. Space Force.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
May 3, 2022 • ~5 min

How to talk to extraterrestrials

Harvard astrophysicist and psychologist explore the possibility of life beyond our solar system and what to do should aliens arrive on Earth ready to engage.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
March 8, 2022 • ~6 min

New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs

New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Feb. 15, 2021 • ~7 min

CfA research on twin suns, ’Oumuamua, and Betelgeuse

CfA astronomers theorize that the solar system originally had two suns as they further research a sneezing star and ‘Oumuamua.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Sept. 4, 2020 • ~9 min

Harvard researchers see alien potential in mysterious object

A paper by Harvard researchers wonders whether the interstellar object known as “‘Oumuamua” is a visitor from an alien civilization.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Nov. 19, 2018 • ~6 min

Harvard researchers see alien potential in mysterious object

A paper by Harvard researchers wonders whether the interstellar object known as “‘Oumuamua” is a visitor from an alien civilization.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Nov. 19, 2018 • ~6 min

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