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What hurricanes and space storms have in common

Wed, 10/26/2022
Those massive, swirling radar images shown on TV during hurricane season may have an unexpected analog in the deepest reaches of the cosmos — extrasolar storms of dust and...

Natarajan appointed Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics

Wed, 08/17/2022
Priyamvada Natarajan, a theoretical astrophysicist who maps the unseen universe — invisible entities like dark matter, black holes, and dark energy — whose presence can only...

Yale women astronomers share their stories in ‘The Sky is for Everyone’

Wed, 08/10/2022
The story of women in astronomy is not simply a tale of the planets they’ve discovered and the black holes they’ve mapped. It is a history filled with persistence and...

A new census of supermassive black holes that are growing

Tue, 08/02/2022
Yale astrophysicists have helped assemble an unprecedented census of the most powerful, growing supermassive black holes in the universe. Using data from NASA’s Swift...

Snapping a cosmic selfie — the first image of the Milky Way’s black hole

Fri, 05/13/2022
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, an international collaboration aimed at gathering direct images of black holes, has now set its sights close to home. In a...

Marla Geha, awarded the Dylan Hixon ’88 Prize for teaching excellence in the natural sciences

Thu, 05/05/2022
In a ceremony held in the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning on May 5, Yale College Dean Marvin Chun read the nominating students’ words of praise: “Marla Geha,...

Priya Natarajan receives Liberty Science Center ‘Genius Award’

Mon, 05/02/2022
Priya Natarajan, professor of astronomy and of physics. who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored with a Liberty Science Center...