- October 10, 2025
Jack Heinzel & Jackie Hewitt
Journal Club - February 28, 2026
SpaceTime TeaTime
Public Outreach EventExplore the weird and wonderful qualities of time travel and black hole physics - October 26, 2025
PruBoo: Space Views
Public Outreach EventEnjoy telescope tricks and planetarium treats at the Prudential Center’s annual Halloween event. - October 3, 2025
Fall 2025 All-Hands Meeting
Journal ClubAll are invited to come hear updates from Rob and others as we begin the new academic year. - September 26, 2025
Swati Ravi & Saugata Barat
Journal ClubTalk 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 - September 19, 2025
Zoë de Beurs & Nathaniel Starkman
Journal ClubTalk 1: TBD Talk 2: Tracing Dark Matter in External Galaxies with Stellar Streams from Euclid and Zooniverse - September 12, 2025
Haochen Wang & Rohan Naidu
Journal ClubTalk 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" - September 26, 2025
Night Sky Observing
Public Outreach EventTelescope observing in the Middlesex Fells with MIT Astrogazers - September 21, 2025
Cambridge Science Festival Carnival
Public Outreach EventMKI’s TESS, LIGO, and Astrogazers team present hands-on activities for kids of all ages - September 11, 2025
After Dark: SpaceTime
Public Outreach EventExplore the physics of black holes and gravitational waves at the MIT Museum - November 10, 2025
Wata (Chanita) Tubthong
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - November 3, 2025
Scott Lucchini
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - November 17, 2025
Myles Sherman & Isabel Sands
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - October 27, 2025
Alexa Gordon & Jacob (Jake) Nibauer
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - October 20, 2025
Peter Scherbak & Saugata Barat
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - October 6, 2025
Philippe Yao & Yonadav (Barry) Ginat
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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 - September 29, 2025
Ajay Gill & Shaunak Mondak
Monday Afternoon Science Talks - September 22, 2025
Karthik Yadavalli & Zeyuan Xuan
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Radiative Transfer Modeling Supernovae to Understand Progenitor Physics Talk 2: From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources - September 15, 2025
Junehyong Jeon & Vedant Chandra
Monday Afternoon Science TalksFormation and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe and Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon - September 8, 2025
Chun Huang & Aimee Schechter
Monday Afternoon Science TalksLinking 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 - September 2, 2025
Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg
Special SeminarInfrared Observations of the Galactic Center - December 9, 2025
Dan D’Orazio
Astrophysics Colloquium - December 2, 2025
Priya Natarajan
Astrophysics Colloquium - November 25, 2025
Lisa Dang
Astrophysics Colloquium - November 18, 2025
Anna de Graaff
Astrophysics Colloquium - October 28, 2025
Carlos Vargas
Astrophysics ColloquiumPioneering Emission Mapping of the Circumgalactic Medium with Aspera: Mission Progress and Lessons Learned. - November 4, 2025
Sudip Bhattacharyya
Astrophysics ColloquiumThermonuclear X-ray Bursts: Probing Neutron Stars and a Double-Photospheric-Radius-Expansion - October 21, 2025
Matt McQuinn
Astrophysics ColloquiumHistory of the Intergalactic Medium Thermal History - October 14, 2025
Roger Blandford
Astrophysics ColloquiumErgomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks and Wave Optics in M87 and SS433 - October 7, 2025
Yue Shen
Astrophysics ColloquiumCosmic heavyweights: masses, host galaxies, and an origin story - September 30, 2025
Jeff Andrews
Astrophysics ColloquiumIt Takes Two to Tango: Modeling Binary Stellar Populations in the Gravitational Wave Era - September 23, 2025
Suvi Gezari
Astrophysics ColloquiumUsing Tidal Disruption Events as Probes of Massive Black Hole Formation and Growth Over Cosmic Time - September 16, 2025
Julian Muñoz
Astrophysics ColloquiumWhat is JWST teaching us about the early Universe? - September 9, 2025
Kevin Schlaufman
Astrophysics ColloquiumThe Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanet Systems Over Billions of Years - May 12, 2025
Yilun Ma & Jamie Lin
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 1: Searching for little red dots across redshifts Talk 2: High redshift quiescent galaxies in overdensities at z~4-5 observed by JWST - May 5, 2025
Sunil Simha
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Cosmic accountancy: Baryon budgeting using FRB dispersion measures - April 28, 2025
Dave Clements
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: The deepest Herschel-SPIRE Field - April 14, 2025
Saiyang Zhang & Lizhong Zhang
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk 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 - April 7, 2025
Christopher Lindsay
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Stellar astrophysics and galactic archaeology with asteroseismology - March 31, 2025
Marie Lau
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Probing quasar/galaxy evolution, feeding, and feedback: Extremely Red Quasars (ERQs) and the Quasar-Associated Inflows Legacy Survey (QUAILS) - March 10, 2025
Jesse Han
Monday Afternoon Science TalksTalk: Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud - May 6, 2025
Sanaea Rose
Astrophysics ColloquiumStellar bumper cars: Collisions in the centers of galaxies