Physicist Netta Engelhardt is searching black holes for universal truths
She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?”
She says one question drives her work: “Which pillars of gravitational physics are just not true?”
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.
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class.
Nine postdocs and research scientists honored for contributions to the Institute.
Fellows honored for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
The MIT seniors will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University.
An exotic electronic state observed by MIT physicists could enable more robust forms of quantum computing.
Political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity's leap into space.
The results will expand scientists’ understanding of heat flow in superconductors and neutron stars.
The finding provides new insights into the ultrafast control of magnetic materials, with potential to enable next-generation information processing technologies.
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.
MIT researchers propose “PEDS” method for developing models of complex physical systems in mechanics, optics, thermal transport, fluid dynamics, physical chemistry, climate, and more.
Senior and physics major Gosha Geogdzhayev devotes himself to climate modeling and writing poetry.