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A primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars with the sun in the background.

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.

September 19, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory

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The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider

Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

September 17, 2024
Categories: In The News, Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory
An illustration shows a black hole, indicated by warped light, near a planet in the solar system

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system

September 17, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory
Frank Wilczek shakes hands with the King of Sweden while receiving the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!

September 17, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

MIT OpenCourseWare sparks the joy of deep understanding

September 17, 2024
Categories: Education, In The News
A primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars with the sun in the background.

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds

September 17, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory

Robert Simcoe, Director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to receive 2024 Muhlmann Award

September 16, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
Image shows vein-like connections, in purple, spreading across galaxies connecting celestial bodies.

Study: Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles

September 13, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Astrophysics Theory
AI generated image of neural network

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

September 11, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students
3 by 3 grid of headshots of 2024-25 MLK Scholars

MIT welcomes nine MLK Scholars for 2024-25

September 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty

Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano

September 9, 2024
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A golden fluid streams across horizontally in front of a green undulating wall.

Atoms on the edge

September 6, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Atomic Physics

Nurturing success

September 3, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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