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The densely populated area at the center of our galaxy is home to epic cosmic collisions and mysterious phenomena.

Team including Northwestern scientists detect merger of neutron star, mystery object

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2024 - In the crowded heart of our galaxy, certain stars exhibit a deceptively youthful glow, not from cosmic skincare, but from the remnants of stellar cannibalism. Northwestern Universitys recent study

<p>Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way’s center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like ‘violent high fives’ while others are full-on mergers. Research will be presented on April 4 at the American Physical Society.</p>

Northwestern President Michael Schill announced a new Advisory Committee on Free Expression and Institutional Speech in a University-wide statement Monday.  Pritzker Prof. Erin Delaney, who specializes in Constitutional law, will chair the 11-person committee. Other members include NU President Emeritus Henry Bienen; Weinberg Prof. Eli Finkel; Weinberg Prof. Vicky Kalogera, director of the Center for...

An international team of scientists, including physics and astronomy Prof. Shane Larson, will construct a new gravitational wave detector with the European Space Agency over the next 10 years, the University announced Jan. 25. Larson is a U.S. board member on the consortium overseeing the construction of the detector, named the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna....

“We’re used to thinking about the universe in terms of pictures,” said Shane Larson, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is “going to sense the universe in gravity itself.”

An international team of scientists that includes astrophysicist Shane Larson has been cleared to build a new detector, this time in space. Today (Jan. 25) the European Space Agency (ESA) voted to formally adopt the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) as its next large mission, putting the space-based gravitational-wave observatory on track for construction and launch in 10 years.

Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 — have been directly detected here on Earth since September 2015. Now an international team of scientists that includes a Northwestern University ast

Working with an international team of researchers, Northwestern astrophysicists found that a new NASA telescope set to launch in May 2027 will help astronomers to understand dark matter, the University announced Wednesday. NASA said more is unknown than is known about dark matter — which makes up roughly 27% of the universe. Scientists do know...