Events

Explore the weird and wonderful qualities of time travel and black hole physics

Enjoy telescope tricks and planetarium treats at the Prudential Center’s annual Halloween event.

All are invited to come hear updates from Rob and others as we begin the new academic year.

Talk 1: What's the Buzz About GX 13+1? Constraining Coronal Geometry with QUEEN-BEE: A Bayesian Nested Sampling Framework for X-ray Polarization Rotation Analysis Talk 2: Exoplanets through time: First glimpse of the atmospheres of young transiting planets

Talk 1: TBD Talk 2: Tracing Dark Matter in External Galaxies with Stellar Streams from Euclid and Zooniverse

Talk 1: Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog Talk 2: The Beginnings of Today's Supermassive Black Holes in JWST's Little Red Dot "Black Hole Stars"

Telescope observing in the Middlesex Fells with MIT Astrogazers

MKI’s TESS, LIGO, and Astrogazers team present hands-on activities for kids of all ages

Explore the physics of black holes and gravitational waves at the MIT Museum

Talk 1: Theoretical Models for Repeating Nuclear Transients: Stellar Orbits, Disk Encounters & Mass Transfer Talk 2: The Small-Scale Limit of the Cold-Dark-Matter Power-Spectrum

Talk 1: Radiative Transfer Modeling Supernovae to Understand Progenitor Physics Talk 2: From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources

Formation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe and Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon

Linking Multiwavelength Pulsar Emission to Super-Dense Physics Inside Neutron Star & From the Little Leagues to the Big Leagues: The Impact of Low-mass Minor to Massive Major Galaxy Mergers on Galaxy Evolution

Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center

Pioneering Emission Mapping of the Circumgalactic Medium with Aspera: Mission Progress and Lessons Learned.

Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts: Probing Neutron Stars and a Double-Photospheric-Radius-Expansion

History of the Intergalactic Medium Thermal History

Ergomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks and Wave Optics in M87 and SS433

Cosmic heavyweights: masses, host galaxies, and an origin story

It Takes Two to Tango: Modeling Binary Stellar Populations in the Gravitational Wave Era

Using Tidal Disruption Events as Probes of Massive Black Hole Formation and Growth Over Cosmic Time

What is JWST teaching us about the early Universe?

The Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanet Systems Over Billions of Years

Talk 1: Searching for little red dots across redshifts Talk 2: High redshift quiescent galaxies in overdensities at z~4-5 observed by JWST

Talk: Cosmic accountancy: Baryon budgeting using FRB dispersion measures

Talk: The deepest Herschel-SPIRE Field

Talk 1: The imprint of primordial black holes over cosmic history Talk 2: Modeling black hole accretion with radiation GRMHD: a parameter survey and connection to observations

Talk: Stellar astrophysics and galactic archaeology with asteroseismology

Talk: Probing quasar/galaxy evolution, feeding, and feedback: Extremely Red Quasars (ERQs) and the Quasar-Associated Inflows Legacy Survey (QUAILS)

Talk: Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Stellar bumper cars: Collisions in the centers of galaxies