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  1. A Cosmic ‘Leaf Blower’: Light-Propelled Winds Help Explain Early Universe’s Bright Galaxies

  2. Now Fully Online, Simons Observatory Begins Probe of Universe’s Birth

  3. Delving Into the Mathematical Absurdities of Black Holes

  4. Black Hole Discoveries Abound in Newly Released LIGO-Virgo Catalog

  5. Alumni Spotlight: Christopher Lam

  6. Gravity Follows Newton’s and Einstein’s Rules, Even at Cosmic Scales

  7. Caught in the Act: Astronomers Watch a Vanishing Star Turn Into a Black Hole

  8. Adrian Bayer: Unveiling the Universe’s Origins and Current State by Modeling Its Many Faces

  9. Groundbreaking Simulations Show How Black Holes Glow Bright

  10. Mysterious ‘Impossible’ Merger of 2 Massive Black Holes Explained

  11. CCA Senior Research Scientist Shirley Ho Named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences

  12. CCA Research Fellow Elena Pinetti Awarded Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics

  13. Flatiron Institute Scientists Valentin Crépel and Ore Gottlieb Named Blavatnik Regional Award Honorees

  14. Ringing Black Hole Confirms Einstein and Hawking’s Predictions

  15. A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars

  16. Gravitational Waves Reveal Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Detected

  17. A Vast Molecular Cloud, Long Invisible, Is Discovered Near Our Solar System

  18. Flares From Magnetized Stars Can Forge Planets’ Worth of Gold, Other Heavy Elements

  19. Flatiron Institute Becomes New Hub for Stellar Evolution Software Suite MESA

  20. Atacama Cosmology Telescope Publishes Final Major Data Release

  21. CCA Researcher Lorenzo Sironi Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

  22. Hubble Telescope’s Jaw-Dropping New Photo Mosaic Traces Andromeda Galaxy’s History

  23. New Datasets Will Train AI Models To Think Like Scientists

  24. First Dish Built for South Africa’s HIRAX Radio Telescope Array

  25. We Finally Know Where Black Holes Get Their Magnetic Fields: Their Parents

  26. Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright Star Betelgeuse Likely Has a ‘Betelbuddy’ Stellar Companion

  27. Space Probe Proposed by Team Including CCA Scientist Reaches Final Round of $1B NASA Mission Selection

  28. Astrophysicists Use AI To Precisely Calculate Universe’s ‘Settings’

  29. New Detectable Gravitational Wave Source From Collapsing Stars Predicted From Simulations

  30. Hyped Signal of Decaying Dark Matter Vanishes in Updated Analysis

  31. Colossal Planet in Rare Orbit Offers Clues to Origins of ‘Hot Jupiters’

  32. Citizen Scientists Help Discover Record-Breaking Exoplanet in Binary Star System

  33. CCA Director Julianne Dalcanton Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  34. Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

  35. Largest-Ever Map of Universe’s Active Supermassive Black Holes Released

  36. All 5 Flatiron Centers Represented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

  37. New Astrophysics Model Sheds Light on Additional Source of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts

  38. Taking a Fresh Look at the Cosmos

  39. Scientists Begin Building AI for Scientific Discovery Using Tech Behind ChatGPT

  40. Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn

  41. Twinkling of Giant Stars Reveals How Their Innards Churn in First-Ever Simulations

  42. Shirley Ho Named a Finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

  43. Clamor of Gravitational Waves From Universe’s Merging Supermassive Black Holes ‘Heard’ for First Time

  44. Finding Order in the Chaos of the Cosmos

  45. Map of Space-Time Distortions Reveals Universe’s Dark Matter Distribution, Proving Einstein Right

  46. Artificial Intelligence Discovers Secret Equation for ‘Weighing’ Galaxy Clusters

  47. Advancing Astronomy With Statistics

  48. Simons Foundation Scientists Named as Sloan Research Fellows