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Stay up to date on the latest discoveries and announcements.

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

  2. How the ‘Hell Planet’ Got So Hot

  3. Seeing the Early Universe Through a Simulation

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

  5. The Planet Huntress

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

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

  8. The Secret Lives of Stars

  9. Cosmologist J. Colin Hill Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

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

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

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

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

  14. Astrophysicists Reveal Largest-Ever Suite of Universe Simulations

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

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

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

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

  19. Watch: When Galaxies Collide

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

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

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

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

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

  25. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow

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

  27. Simons-NSBP Scholars Program 2021

  28. Announcement Regarding NASA Hubble Fellowship Program

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

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

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

  32. Astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart Named a 2020 Packard Fellow

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

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

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

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

  37. Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive

  38. The Eternal Sky (Trailer)

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

  40. Cosmic Rays May Have Given Life Its Shape

  41. The Flatiron Institute: A Home for Computational Sciences

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

  43. The Universe’s Dark Expanding Mystery

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

  45. Event Horizon Telescope Team Awarded Einstein Medal

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

  47. LIGO-Virgo Network Catches Another Neutron Star Collision

  48. ‘Ringing’ Black Hole Validates Einstein’s General Relativity 10 Years Ahead of Schedule