Recent CfA Press Releases

• A New Approach to SETI: Targetting Alien Polluters
• Fast Radio Bursts Might Come from Nearby Stars
• Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
• The Older We Get, the Less We Know (Cosmologically)
• Planet Starship
• City Lights Could Reveal E.T. Civilization
• NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole
• Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds Stars
• Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
• Testing Einstein: Is Dark Energy Constant?
• How to Spot the Speediest Black Holes
• When Galaxies Collide, our Solar System Will Go for a Ride
• Eavesdropping on the Universe
• When Dwarfs Gave Way to Giants
• Black Holes Aren't So Black
• Ferreting Out The First Stars
• Taking a CAT Scan of the Early Universe
• Illuminating The "Dark Ages" Of The Universe
• Cosmic Dark Ages Lasted For More Than A Billion Years
• First Milky Ways Found at Edge of the Universe
• Lensing of High-Redshift Quasars
• End of the Universe Frozen in Time
• Astronomers Resolve Visible Blast Wave from Gamma-Ray Burst
• Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background May be Remnant of Large Scale Structure Formation in the Universe (2000)
• Bulk Source of Universe's Gamma-Rays Identified, Scientists Say (Follow-up Press Release by NASA, 2002)

Articles in the Harvard University Gazette

• CfA researchers discover black holes aren't so black: 'The Holy Grail of black hole astronomy is within our grasp'
• End of the Universe
• The Dark Ages of the Young Universe

Recent Radio Broadcasts

• Earth and Sky: "Flipping through the photo album of the cosmos"
• Sunrise Radio (UMass Lowell): "Extraterrestrial Inteligence"
• Earth and Sky: "Astrophysicist Seeks Missing Pages of Universe"
• Radio Netherlands: "End of the Universe Frozen in Time"
• BBC: "The First Stars"
• ABC (The Science Show): "Cosmic Dark Age"

Sample of Recent Articles in Science Magazines (only a partial sample since many other articles [including those for a broad audience in "Nature's News and Views" and in "Science"] are not accessible for free on the internet)

• TIME Magazine (10/09): "Found: A Quasar from the Dawn of Time"
• Science News (10/09): "Windows on the Universe"
• Physics Today (8/09): "Gamma-Ray Burst has Highest Redshift yet Seen"
• NY Times (7/09): Black Holes, a Riddle All Their Own, May Be Fueling the Blobs
• Discovery Channel (7/09): Black Holes Gone Rogue
• Science NOW (5/09): Running Amok in the Milky Way
• Fox News Science (5/09): Rogue Black Holes May Roam Our Galaxy
• Hayadan Science News (in hebrew) (5/09): Hundreds of Wandering Black Holes in Our Galaxy
• Science News Magazine (4/09): Blob May Signal Monster Galaxy Feeding
• New Scientist Magazine (4/09): Mysterious cosmic blob discovered in early universe
• Smithsonian Magazine (4/08): Homing in on Black Holes
• New Scientist (11/30/07): Milky Way Galaxy May Have Hidden Twin
• Astronomy magazine (1/08): Welcome to Milkomeda
• Arizona Daily Star (9/26/07): Astronomers hope new scope will gaze into infinity and beyond
• Science (5/15/07): The End of the Milky Way
• Nature (5/15/07): Will the Sun be stolen by another galaxy?
• New-Scientist (5/14/07): Galactic merger to 'evict' Sun and Earth
• San Francisco Chronicle (5/17/07): When Galaxies Collide
• Scientific American (5/10/07): When Milky Way and Andromeda Collide, Earth Could Find Itself Far From Home
• World-Science (5/12/07): The galaxy next doorour destined home?
• FQXi (5/24/07): "Avi Loeb: Eavesdropping on ET"
• PhysOrg.com (1/8/07): "Eavesdropping on the Universe"
• Boston Globe (1/8/07): "Anybody out there? A new generation of listening posts might hear their call"
• Smithsonian magazine (1/30/07): "Earth to Space"
• Scientific American article (11/06): "The Dark Ages of the Universe"
• TIME Magazine's Cover Story (9/4/06): "Let There Be Light"
• New-York Times (9/14/06): "The Boom in Galaxies After the Big Bang"
• "Punny Black Holes Can Eject Milky-Way's stars"
• Physics World: "Institute Backs Way Out Physics"
• "The Short Reign of Dwarf Galaxies"
• "Emergence of Galactic Heavyweights"
• "Bubbles Toasted Birth of Galaxies"
• "Mapping the Early Universe in 3 Dimensions"
• "Cosmic Dark Age found in Shadows"
• "Taking a CAT Scan of the Early Universe"
• "Tomography of the Early Universe"
• "Seeing in the Dark"
• "Songs of Galaxies, and What they Mean"
• "Illuminating the Dark Ages"
• "Scientists look back in time for clues to how the first stars formed"
• "Mature Before Their Time"
• "First Quasars Shed Light on the Early Universe"
• "Scientists See Through the Dark Ages of the Universe"
• "Cosmic Background Radiation Illuminates the Dark Ages (in German)"
• "Birth of Quasars is Traced Back to Extra Big Galaxies"
• "In the Beginning: Dark Matter Builds Galaxies, Feeds Quasars"
• "Astrophysicists Spot Solution to Quasar Quick Formation"
• "Mystery Matter Helped Build First Galaxies"
• "Discovery of Massive Quasar Hosts" (in hebrew)
• "Milky Way- like Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe" (in hebrew)
• "Lonely Universe"
• "Cosmic Dawn"
• "Distant Quasars Offer a Glimpse of Dawn in the Universe"
• "Natural Telescopes Might Magnify Distant Quasars"
• "Galactic Lenses Cut Black Holes Down to Size"
• Scientific American (2002): "Galaxy Clusters May Be Main Source of Universe's Gamma Rays"
• "Gravitational Lensing: Seeing Red"
• "Theory about the Gamma-Ray Background Confirmed" (in Hebrew)
• "It Will Happen in the Year 100,000,002,002" (in Hebrew)
• "Cosmic Illusion"
• "Und so ward es Licht" (in German)
• "Cosmos to Freeze-Frame"
• "Where Did That Galaxy Go?"
• "The End of the Universe May be Frozen in Time"
• "All Galaxies to Become Ghosts, Frozen in Time"
• "The Universe Might Last Forever, Astronomers Say, but Life Might Not"
• "A Lonely, Frozen End to Our Wonderful Universe"
• "Caution: Objects in Telescope May be Dimmer than They Appear"
• "The Telescope that will Explore Genesis" (in Hebrew)
• "Astronomers Compete to Find the Farthest Galaxies"
• "Astronomers See Relativistic Blast Wave"
• "Spotting a Ring of Fire"
• "Mysterious Ring on the Sky" (in Hebrew)
• "Talpiot" (front page, Wall Street Journal)

(Last updated: April 2011)