Northwestern University astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and puzzled by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling in the center of the Milky Way ever since he first discovered them in the early 1980s.
Now, 40 years …
Last week, a team of Northwestern researchers assisted in recording the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded.
The discovery was part of an international effort to document an explosion nearly 2.4 billion light years away from Earth. The team of astrophysicists …
A team of Northwestern astrophysicists, led by graduate student Aretaios Lalakos, recently released their research on X-shaped galaxies — strange phenomena that have puzzled scientists for years.
Lalakos is a member of Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences…
In a new study, a team of researchers from universities across the country discovered that star formation is self-regulatory, meaning stars themselves set their own masses as they are formed. This helps explain why stars in different environments still have …
Northwestern and Radboud University in the Netherlands have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from an explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star.
To record the data, astrophysicists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international observatory …
As NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope is officially transitioning into scientific operations, Northwestern University astrophysicists Allison Strom and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh will have early access to the device within the next month. Strom will lead the CECILIA (Chemical Evolution Constrained …
A team of Northwestern astrophysicists has developed the first-ever full 3D simulation of a “collapstar” — the entire evolution of a jet formed by a collapsing star. The paper was published on June 29 in Astrophysical Journal Letters and featured …
New findings from a team of Northwestern University astrophysicists provide insight into binary star formation and how magnetic fields influence the earliest stages of developing stars. Using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the researchers were able to take …
A team of Northwestern researchers may have identified an afterglow from a kilonova — a cosmic event that only happens when two neutron stars collide. The merger event in question, named GW170817, occurred three and a half years ago. The …