Persistent “hiccups” in a far-off galaxy draw astronomers to new black hole behavior
Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas.
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Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas.
Results suggest the clouds of Venus could be hospitable for some forms of life.
The “oriented” samples, the first of their kind from any planet, could shed light on Mars’ ancient magnetic field.
The detections more than double the number of known tidal disruption events in the nearby universe.
The findings suggest our galaxy’s core may contain less dark matter than previously estimated.
The MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool lets users model the long-term future space environment.
A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, which the James Webb Space Telescope can detect, could be a signature of habitability.
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
Associate director and geospace lead scientist to succeed Colin Lonsdale.
Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.
This laser communications terminal, developed at Lincoln Laboratory, aims to transmit data at high rates from the ISS to ground stations via NASA’s first two-way laser communications relay system.
MIT Doya blasted their first rocket to a height of 1,290 meters, placing second at the 2023 First Nations Launch contest. The team is now gearing up for a 2024 launch.
Using multiple observatories, astronomers directly detect tellurium in two merging neutron stars.
The NASA mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own.