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Study: Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have ‘unseen’ siblings

Tue, 04/24/2018
Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way. Typically, a supermassive black hole (SMBH) exists at the core of a...
Ghostly Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2

Researchers find a galaxy without dark matter

Wed, 03/28/2018
A Yale-led research team has discovered a galaxy that contains no dark matter — a finding that confirms the possibility of dark matter as a separate material elsewhere in the...
Extreme Precision Spectrometer (EXPRES) Image

Yale’s EXPRES instrument ready to find the next Earth analog

Wed, 03/14/2018
A new, ground-based spectrometer designed and built at Yale represents the most powerful step yet in the effort to identify Earth-sized planets in neighboring solar systems....

Tinsley Award winner announced

Thu, 03/01/2018
Sarah Millholland is the winner of this year’s Tinsley Award for the best Astronomy paper by a Yale Graduate student for her paper “Supervised Learning Detection of Sixty Non...

American Astronomical Society (AAS) names Debra Fischer as Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecturer

Wed, 02/21/2018
With support from the Kavli Foundation, the Vice-Presidents of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) name a special invited lecturer to kick off each semiannual AAS meeting...

Samantha Berek, ‘20 selected as Brooke Owens Fellow

Fri, 02/16/2018
Yale Astrophysics major Samantha Berek (Class of 2020) has been selected as Brooke Owens Fellow and will be interning at Bryce Space and Technology this summer....

Christopher Spalding, Ph.D. awarded second 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Wed, 01/31/2018
Growing up surrounded by the idyllic landscape of Northern Ireland fostered Christopher Spalding’s curiosity about the natural world and the physical laws that explain it....