“The most spectacular element of the Penrose calculations is
that he showed that if you are close enough to a black hole, time
ends. It is the mirror image of the Big Bang.”
—Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor
(Wall
Street...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what might the first
horizon-scale image of a black hole tell us? A new paper by
researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration,
which famously imaged M87’s central black hole, has provided
a...
In a new study of axion motion, researchers, including Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member Keisuke Harigaya, propose a scenario known as “kinetic misalignment” that greatly strengthens the case for axion/dark matter equivalence.
James M. Stone, a world-renowned computational astrophysicist,
whose research is focused on fluid dynamics—in particular numerical
solutions to the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an
astrophysical context—has been appointed to the Faculty...
Thirty years ago, Martin
Rees, a former Member in the School of Natural Sciences and
current IAS Trustee, predicted that bright flares produced when a
star is torn apart by a black hole—what astrophysicists now call
tidal disruption events (TDEs)...
Academic Trustee Ewine van Dishoeck has been recognized with the 2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry.
Juna Kollmeier, former
Junior Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, wants
to understand the substance of the universe: What forms space
structures like galaxies, supermassive black holes, and the
intergalactic medium that fills the...
Juan
Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of
Natural Sciences, and Member Douglas Stanford will
give the public lecture “The Cool Alter-Ego of a Black
Hole,” on Friday, May 4, which will take
place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn
Hall on...
“Trying to understand Hawking’s discovery better has been a
source of much fresh thinking for almost 40 years now, and we are
probably still far from fully coming to grips with it. It still
feels new,” said Edward Witten,
Charles Simonyi Professor...
The American Astronomical Society awarded former Members in the School of Natural Sciences with prestigious prizes for outstanding achievements in scientific research, instrument development, and writing.
