Press Releases

March 22, 2018

Hubble Telescope Reveals Source of Gas Streaming Into Milky Way By Thomas Sumner

A photo mosaic of an edge-on view of the Milky Way galaxy, looking toward the central bulge. The arc-shaped Magellanic Stream stretches below the galaxy’s plane and the shredded, fragmented Leading Arm crosses the galaxy’s plane and extends above it

February 26, 2018

Artificial Intelligence Techniques Reconstruct Mysteries of Quantum Systems By Thomas Sumner

Graphic illustrating machine learning. On the left is a box labelled Input Measurements with an arrow to a graphic in the middle labelled Neural Network, which has an arrow pointing to the right labelled Reconstructed Measurements. Input measurements has eight colorful digital illustrations of cats. The Neural Network has three squares and three colorful circles that are all connected. The Reconstructed Measurement boxes has the same colorful cat images in the first box.

February 06, 2018

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

Astronaut photograph ISS013-E-54329 showing how atmospheric gases scatter blue wavelengths of visible light more than other wavelengths, giving the Earth’s visible edge a blue halo

January 31, 2018

New Universe Simulation Reveals High-Resolution Details About Cosmological Structures

Rendering of the gas velocity in a thin slice of 100 kiloparsec thickness (in the viewing direction), centred on the second most massive galaxy cluster in the TNG100 calculation

December 06, 2017

Newly Discovered Goliath Galaxies from Early Universe Hint at Massive Dark Matter Trove By Thomas Sumner

Digital illustration of two titanic galaxies inhabited the early universe just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang

December 03, 2017

Flatiron Institute’s David Spergel Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize for Mapping the Early Universe By Thomas Sumner

Portrait photo of David Spergel

November 13, 2017

Gravitational Waves from Merging Supermassive Black Holes Will Be Spotted within 10 Years, New Study Predicts By Thomas Sumner

Image of Sombrero galaxy from Hubble Telescope

October 12, 2017

A Star That Devoured Its Own Planets By Thomas Sumner

Starry sky with arrows pointing to Kronos (HD 240430) and Krios (HD 240429)