The path of a light beam will be bent by the presence of mass, an…
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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is one of the world’s leading astronomical research institutions, combining the resources of Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the CfA conducts cutting-edge research across a broad range of topics—from black holes, exoplanets, and dark matter to the origins of the universe. It operates powerful observatories, develops space missions, and plays a key role in global collaborations like the Event Horizon Telescope. Follow the latest discoveries, technological innovations, and cosmic insights emerging from this hub of astrophysical exploration.
A coalition of U.S. educational institutions has launched an online database of opportunities around the…
The next generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), directed by Juna Kollmeier of…
This new image taken by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft shows Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail.…
Harvard scientists have proposed a new way to use photons of light instead of silicon…
The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) announced that it has initiated the casting of the…
Astronomers have succeeded in measuring precisely the distance to a source on the other side…
Astronomers reveal that a small, recently discovered asteroid — or perhaps a comet — has…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics has calculated the rates of…
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, astronomers have detected gravitational waves and…
Using a combination of multiwavelength observations, astronomers measure the characteristics of the Remarkable Jet in…
Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spatially resolve the dust disk around the young…
New observations from ALMA reveal the first detection ever of an organohalogen, Methyl chloride (CH3Cl),…
Different methods of studying cosmic expansion yield slightly different results, including for the age of…
Using radio and X-ray data, astronomers reveal that the mini-halo in the Perseus cluster seems…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that fast radio bursts should occur…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered the first unambiguous signs of…
In a new study, astronomers modeled observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni…