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  1. Astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli Awarded the 2023 HEAD Early Career Prize

  2. Doomed Pair of Supermassive Black Holes the Closest to Collision Ever Seen

  3. The Radiant Research of a Black Hole and Massive-Star Modeler

  4. How the ‘Hell Planet’ Got So Hot

  5. Seeing the Early Universe Through a Simulation

  6. CCA Research Scientist Matteo Cantiello Receives Aspen Institute Italia Award

  7. The Planet Huntress

  8. One of the Universe’s Earliest Galaxies Revealed Using the James Webb Space Telescope

  9. Flatiron Institute Partners With the European Space Agency for Latest Gaia Data Release

  10. The Secret Lives of Stars

  11. Cosmologist J. Colin Hill Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

  12. Origin of Supermassive Black Hole Flares Identified: Largest-Ever Simulations Suggest Flickering Powered by Magnetic ‘Reconnection’

  13. The Largest Suite of Cosmic Simulations for AI Training Is Now Free To Download; Already Spurring Discoveries

  14. Sabbatical Visiting Researcher Program 2022-2023 – Center for Computational Astrophysics

  15. ‘Spergelfest’ Symposium Celebrates Astrophysicist David Spergel’s Career, Fifth Anniversary of the Center for Computational Astrophysics

  16. Astrophysicists Reveal Largest-Ever Suite of Universe Simulations

  17. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Receives American Physical Society’s Maria Goeppert Mayer Award

  18. Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars With Supercomputer Simulations

  19. Nearby Star-Forming Region Yields Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System

  20. Black Holes Flicker When They Eat, Revealing Their Size

  21. Watch: When Galaxies Collide

  22. Magnetic ‘Balding’ of Black Holes Saves General Relativity Prediction

  23. Record-Breaking Suite of Cosmic Simulations Aims To Identify Universe’s Parameters

  24. Julianne Dalcanton Named Next Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics

  25. Shrinking Planets Could Explain Mystery of Universe’s Missing Worlds

  26. New Application of Artificial Intelligence Just Removed One of the Biggest Roadblocks in Astrophysics

  27. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow

  28. Astrophysicist Rachel Somerville Named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

  29. Simons-NSBP Scholars Program 2021

  30. Announcement Regarding NASA Hubble Fellowship Program

  31. Sabbatical Visiting Researcher Program 2021–2022 – Center for Computational Astrophysics

  32. Next-Gen Astronomical Survey Makes Its First Observations Toward a New Understanding of the Cosmos

  33. Recent Research Lays Groundwork for New Generation of Galaxy Simulations

  34. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Named a 2020 Packard Fellow

  35. Astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan Receives Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

  36. Massive Halo Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way

  37. CCA’s Brian Metzger Receives 2020 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists

  38. New View of Nature’s Oldest Light Adds Fresh Twist to Debate Over Universe’s Age

  39. Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive

  40. The Eternal Sky (Trailer)

  41. Why Pulsars Shine Bright: A Half-Century-Old Mystery Solved

  42. Cosmic Rays May Have Given Life Its Shape

  43. The Flatiron Institute: A Home for Computational Sciences

  44. Flatiron Institute’s David Spergel Named a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

  45. The Universe’s Dark Expanding Mystery

  46. Our Solo System: Exoplanets Reveal How Unique We Are

  47. Event Horizon Telescope Team Awarded Einstein Medal

  48. The Milky Way’s Impending Galactic Collision Is Already Birthing New Stars