X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star

Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the speed of light.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 9, 2019 ~9 min

Astronomers observe evolution of a black hole as it wolfs down stellar

Halo of highly energized electrons around the black hole contracts dramatically during feeding frenzy.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 9, 2019 ~8 min


LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections

The observatories are also releasing their first catalog of gravitational-wave events.

MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 3, 2018 ~9 min

Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding? | MIT News

Signals from rare black hole-neutron star pairs could pinpoint rate at which universe is growing, researchers say.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 12, 2018 ~9 min

Dense stellar clusters may foster black hole megamergers | MIT News

Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
April 10, 2018 ~9 min

Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years | MIT News

Symposium explores how novel ideas and experiments are advancing many areas of theoretical physics in newly interconnected ways.

Scott Morley | Center for Theoretical Physics • mit
March 28, 2018 ~12 min

Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star | MIT News

Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 18, 2018 ~8 min

Modeling the universe | MIT News

MIT's Mark Vogelsberger and an international astrophysics team have created a new model pointing to black holes’ role in galaxy formation.

Julia Keller | School of Science • mit
Jan. 31, 2018 ~7 min


Scientists observe supermassive black hole in infant universe | MIT News

Findings present a puzzle as to how such a huge object could have grown so quickly.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 6, 2017 ~7 min

3Q: Scott Hughes on cosmic distances and the future of gravitational wave astronomy | MIT News

Professor of physics describes our understanding of the expansion of the universe through “standard sirens.”

Julia C. Keller | School of Science • mit
Oct. 16, 2017 ~9 min

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