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January 17, 2020

A Kepler multiplanet system precursor (Nature Astronomy)

Image of extrasolar planet system

January 07, 2020

The Milky Way’s Impending Galactic Collision Is Already Birthing New Stars By Thomas Sumner

Image of new stars in milky way

January 06, 2020

LIGO-Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision

An illustration of two neutron stars in the process of merging. Gold surrounds the two objects.

September 12, 2019

‘Ringing’ Black Hole Validates Einstein’s General Relativity 10 Years Ahead of Schedule By Thomas Sumner

An illustration of a black hole. Surrounding the black hole are white lines representing gravitational waves.

July 30, 2019

Hundreds of New Exoplanets Found, Including 154 That ‘Reciprocally Transit’, Scientific American

Two blue marbles on the floor

July 29, 2019

A Stellar Stream in the Milky Way Provides Evidence of Dark Substructure

A model of the stars in the GD-1 stellar stream overlaid on data collected by the Gaia spacecraft. The color of each stat represents how strongly its orbit was affected by the unknown dark matter substructure of the galaxy. White represents a significant change from normal, while red represents almost no difference

July 10, 2019

Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on a Collision Course By Thomas Sumner

An image of a galaxy with bright blobs stacked on top of one another in the middle. An inset shows a close up of the two blobs, which are the locations of supermassive black holes.

June 27, 2019

Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics Connects Students and Scientists

Two Kavli fellows in front of a computer