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November 4, 2025
The flare, co-discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility, may be the result of a mega black-hole meal.
October 28, 2025
Two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution
October 8, 2025
Kareem El-Badry Named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow
September 30, 2025
Calum Torrie is the head of system science and engineering for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. In June, he visited Cardonald Primary School, his childhood school in Glasgow, Scotland, to talk about his work.
September 10, 2025
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem.
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December 5, 2025
2:00 pm
TAPIR Seminar
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Stellar forensics: tracing the origin of interaction-powered supernovae and Type-Ia supernova remnants
December 5, 2025
8:00 pm
Stargazing Lecture
The History of the Solar System: Insights from JWST Observations of Asteroids
December 8, 2025
4:00 pm
Astronomy Tea Talk
Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars/Creating Space-Based, All-Sky Surveys to Study the Death and Afterlife of Stars
Laura Duffy,
graduate student, Penn State University,
Hannah Gulick,
graduate student, UC Berkeley,
December 10, 2025
12:15 pm
Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar
Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia
Jingwen Zhang,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
December 10, 2025
4:00 pm
Astronomy Colloquium
The Euclid space mission
M. Claudia Scarlata,
Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA),
Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics,
University of Minnesota,