Measuring the mass of a galaxy cluster is difficult—clusters cannot be “weighed” by placing them on a scale. Digvijay Wadekar, current Member in the School of Natural Sciences, has worked to develop an AI program to identify new variables that might make inferring the mass from other observable quantities more accurate.
Russian space agency Roscosmos says it will restart a telescope shut down by Germany over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. But a noted expert has warned that this might be dangerous to the instrument.
The Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma
(SRG) orbital X-ray observatory and its associated institutions
and industrial partners received the 2021 Marcel Grossmann
Institutional Award. The international collaboration is cited for
the following achievements:
Puragra Guhathakurta, Member
(1989–92) in the School of Natural Sciences,
and Ellen Zweibel, Member (1977–78)
in the School, have been named 2021 fellows of the American
Astronomical Society (AAS).
Rashid Sunyaev, Maureen
and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School
of Natural Sciences, has
received the 2019 Dirac Medal along with Viatcheslav Mukhanov, a former
Member (2002) in the School now Cosmology Chair at the
Ludwig...
A pioneering mission that traces its roots back to the Soviet
Union achieved liftoff on July 13, 2019. Rashid Sunyaev, Maureen and John
Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural
Sciences, helped conceive of the venture more...
Rashid Sunyaev, Maureen
and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School
of Natural Sciences, is the Russian Scientific Head of the
Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, which promises a trove of
data for researchers to probe the...
Rashid Sunyaev, Visiting
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences and Director of the Max
Planck Institute for Astrophysics, has received the State Prize of
the Russian Federation in Science and Technology. Sunyaev receives
this award jointly with...
