SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution. A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million grant to develop and apply new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to astrophysics research and deep space exploration. Jointly...
Northwestern University astrophysicists are part of an international team of scientists using advanced simulation tools that has predicted the existence of merging massive, 30 solar mass black hole binaries in Milky Way-like galaxies, challenging previous theories. The team, which includes Northwestern’s Vicky...
In a new Northwestern University-led study, astrophysicists crunched 12.5 years of data from 45 dead stars (called pulsars) to set the best limits yet on the gravitational wave signatures emitted from pairs of monster black holes. Knowing these limits will...
For the first time ever, the researchers have used state-of-the-art simulations to show that these cocoons can emit gravitational waves. And, unlike gamma-ray burst jets, cocoons’ gravitational waves should be within the frequency band that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory...
Northwestern played a crucial role in the historic detection of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916. On September 14, 2015, a team of more than 1,000 scientists and engineers from around the world detected these...
Northwestern researchers Vicky Kalogera, Wen-Fai Fong, and Charlie Kilpatrick were recently chosen as finalists to be part of a NASA-led team that will launch a research facility into space in 2028. The winning team will pilot a groundbreaking new mission named STAR-X and will receive $300 million...
For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged in real time the dramatic end to a red supergiant’s life — watching the massive star’s rapid self-destruction and final death throes before collapsing into a type II supernova. Led by researchers at...
An international team of researchers that includes Professor Vicky Kalogera, the principal investigator of Northwestern’s LSC group, director of CIERA and the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has released the largest-ever catalog of gravitational-wave events. The team...
The LSST Corporation, a non-profit consortium of around 30 research institutions, has received $7 million to establish a brand new fellowship around data from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. The fellowship is called the LSSTC Catalyst Fellowship, and it...
900 million years ago, black holes in two separate galaxies merged with their neighboring neutron stars. Two weeks ago, Professor Vicky Kalogera, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, published research about the moment the gravitational waves from these events...
