Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies | MIT News
Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe’s ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled…
Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
Listening for the echoes of black holes | MIT News
Black holes are often misunderstood to be just that: dark and mysterious voids that are somehow akin to…
MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar | MIT News
A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every galaxy, including the Milky Way. When a black…
Astronomers pin down the origins of a planetary odd couple | MIT News
Across the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary odd couple is circling a star some 190 light years from…
Transforming deep-space signals into cathedral sound | MIT News
A new immersive sound installation at Oulu Cathedral, Finland, brings the research of MIT astrophysicist and associate professor…
Scientists get a first look at the innermost region of a white dwarf system | MIT News
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in…