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

  2. Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on a Collision Course

  3. The First AI Simulation of the Universe Is Fast and Accurate — and Even Its Creators Don’t Know How It Works

  4. Gravitational Waves Will Settle Cosmic Conundrum

  5. How Black Holes Power Plasma Jets

  6. CCA’s Blakesley Burkhart Awarded Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

  7. Enormous ‘Ghost’ Galaxy Spotted on Outskirts of Milky Way

  8. Pint-Size Planetary Systems Aren’t Into Heavy Metal

  9. Visiting Researcher Program – Center for Computational Astrophysics

  10. Flatiron Institute Hosts National Science Foundation Workshop on the Plasma Physics of Neutron Star Mergers

  11. Watch: Simulations of Stellar Geysers from Luminous Blue Variable Stars

  12. Elusive Origin of Stellar Geysers Revealed by 3D Simulations

  13. Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success

  14. The Gaia Sausage: The Major Collision That Changed the Milky Way Galaxy

  15. The Eternal Sky, Part 3: Tools for Bang or Bounce

  16. Assembly of Massive Galaxy Cluster Witnessed for the First Time

  17. Hubble Telescope Reveals Source of Gas Streaming Into Milky Way

  18. Stratospheric Ozone at Lower Latitudes Is Not Recovering, Despite Antarctic Ozone Hole Healing

  19. New Universe Simulation Reveals High-Resolution Details About Cosmological Structures

  20. Newly Discovered Goliath Galaxies From Early Universe Hint at Massive Dark Matter Trove

  21. Flatiron Institute’s David Spergel Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize for Mapping the Early Universe

  22. Gravitational Waves From Merging Supermassive Black Holes Will Be Spotted Within 10 Years, New Study Predicts

  23. A Star That Devoured Its Own Planets

  24. Sabbatical Visiting Researcher Program – Center for Computational Astrophysics

  25. Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute

  26. Flatiron Institute Dedication Ceremony (Video)

  27. Astrophysicist Yuri Levin Heads CCA’s New Compact Objects Research Group

  28. David Spergel To Lead New Center for Computational Astrophysics