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From black holes to massive stars, Flatiron theoretical astrophysicist Yan-Fei Jiang is working to tackle some of the hardest problems in modeling extreme cosmic environments.

New ultra-precise measurements reveal the orbital path of planet 55 Cnc e (nicknamed “Janssen”), a scorchingly hot super-Earth closely circling a distant star. The findings, made …

Computational models are empowering researchers to understand observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, painting a virtual picture of the early universe.

… angle. Further data collected in the following months confirmed that the hypothesis supported in this work is indeed correct. Cantiello joined the foundation in 2017 as associate …

Is there another Earth out there? Flatiron Institute astronomer Megan Bedell is on the hunt for Earth 2.0. And she’s making new discoveries about sunlike stars …

… galaxies’ evolution and create predictions for future observations. “One thing we still don’t really understand is how they formed so quickly,” says Yung. “They’re only …

… galaxy’s structure and evolution over billions of years to better understand the life cycle of stars and our place in the universe. DR3 includes new information …

Massive stars are key players in the universe. They explode as supernovae, affect the evolution of galaxies, and even create the elements in our DNA. Through computer modeling …

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded one of its prestigious research fellowships to cosmologist J. Colin Hill. The fellowship “recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who …

Researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators found that breaking and reconnecting magnetic field lines near the event horizon release energy from a black hole’s magnetic …

The CAMELS project uses machine learning and thousands of simulations to extract secrets from the cosmos

The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute is accepting requests from faculty members on sabbatical who are interested in visiting the CCA …

… best wishes via prerecorded video message, lauding Spergel’s work in encouraging — and guiding — government funding of science. The celebrations focused not only on Spergel but also …

The AbacusSummit simulations will help scientists extract information about the universe from upcoming cosmological surveys.

The American Physical Society has named Blakesley Burkhart the winner of the 2022 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, which recognizes and enhances outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in …

… central accreting supermassive black hole. Anglés-Alcázar et al. Astrophysical Journal 2021 “This is the first time that we have been able to create a simulation that …

The Ophiuchus star-forming complex offers an analog for the formation of the solar system, including the sources of elements found in primitive meteorites.

… Astronomers worldwide are waiting for the official kickoff of an era of massive surveys that monitor the dynamic and variable sky. Starting in late 2023, the Vera …

Galaxy clusters are some of the largest known structures in the universe. Astrophysicist Chris Hayward explains what happens when galaxies within those clusters collide.

Magnetic fields around black holes decay quickly, report researchers from the Flatiron Institute, Columbia University and Princeton University. This finding backs up the so-called ‘no-hair conjecture …

The CAMELS project is the largest set of detailed cosmological simulations designed to train machine-learning algorithms.

… Pasadena, California, before joining the University of Washington faculty in 1998. Dalcanton has received numerous recognitions for her work, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a …

Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: the scarcity of planets roughly …

Using neural networks, Flatiron Institute research fellow Yin Li and his colleagues simulated vast, complex universes in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional methods.

Blakesley Burkhart, an associate research scientist at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics, has been awarded a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan …

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has inducted Rachel Somerville as a legacy fellow. The honor recognizes her “contributions toward the society’s mission of enhancing and sharing humanity …

The Center for Computational Astrophysics announces a new program that provides undergraduate NSBP members with summer research opportunities.

The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) is not eligible to host members of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, which includes Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellows. However, we encourage …

The Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute is accepting requests from faculty members on sabbatical who are interested in visiting the CCA …

… “We are so pleased to support Juna Kollmeier and the entire SDSS team, and we are excited for this next phase of discovery.” SDSS-V will operate …

The first batch of research papers from the Simulating Multiscale Astrophysics to Understand Galaxies collaboration, or SMAUG, lays the groundwork for a transformation in the way galaxies are …

… postdoctoral female researchers.

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have named computational astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan as the winner of the 2020 Blavatnik Regional Award for …

Astronomers have discovered that a halo of warm gas surrounding the Magellanic Clouds likely acts as a protective cocoon, shielding the dwarf galaxies from the Milky Way’s …

Astrophysicist Brian Metzger has been named the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in Physical Sciences & Engineering by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The honor recognizes Metzger’s contributions to …

Observations by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.

Machine-learning methods can predict the long-term stability of planetary configurations 100,000 times faster than previous approaches.

This video series documents the building of the Simons Observatory, which will look for signs of cosmic inflation to answer questions about the origin of the universe.

Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma simulations suggest.

Physicists propose that the influence of cosmic rays on early life may explain nature’s preference for a uniform “handedness” among biology’s critical molecules.

The institute has grown from a beautiful proposal into a bustling hub for computational science in astrophysics, biology, mathematics and quantum physics.

David Spergel, director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), is among 232 astronomers and astrophysicists honored as the first class of fellows of the American Astronomical Society …

When it comes to the composition of the universe, we’ve made significant progress in finding out how little we know.

Rocky planets inside, gas giants outside — we thought our solar system was typical. But the discovery of worlds around other stars has altered that view.

The Albert Einstein Society in Bern, Switzerland, will award its 2020 Einstein Medal to the international collaboration of scientists behind the Event Horizon Telescope. The prize recognizes the …

Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds.

… together later in life within dense, busy environments. The LIGO data for the April 25 event do not indicate which of these scenarios is more likely, but …

Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old ‘no-hair theory’ of black hole properties.