Cambridge, MA - The first image of a black hole ever taken is being released today. This monumental achievement was made possible, in part, by key leadership and funding from the Center f...

When the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies accrete material, they can eject powerful jets of charged particles at speeds approaching that of light. These particles in tu...

Cambridge, MA - What: Press conference on first result from Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) projectWhen: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 9:00 am

Stars form from the gas and dust in molecular clouds via a series of complex processes that are currently only partly understood, and the evolution of these clouds drives the evolution of...

Cambridge, MA - A team of scientists has proposed a powerful new test for inflation, the theory that the universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting fraction of a second right a...

The sparsely distributed hot gas that exists in the space between galaxies, the intergalactic medium, is ionized. The question is, how? Astronomers know that once the early universe expa...

All massive galaxies are believed to host supermassive black holes (SMBH) at their centers that grow by accreting mass from their environment. The current picture also imagines that the b...

Minneapolis, MN & Amado, AZ - Muon Hunters 2: Return of the Ring, launches new Zooniverse citizen science project on March 14th, 2019.

Heterocyclic molecules are those containing atoms of at least two different elements (plus hydrogen) arranged in a ring structure. Nitrogen heterocycles are key components in biological n...

Cambridge, MA - An international team of astronomers, led by University of Hawai'i graduate student Ashley Chontos, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate identifi...