MIT astronomers and others with the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have snapped the first image of SgrA , the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy.
MIT Haystack Observatory identifies long-duration atmospheric waves launched by the recent Tonga volcanic eruption. These discoveries ultimately suggest new ways in which the atmospheric waves and the global ionosphere are connected.
MIT professor emeritus of planetary physics Gordon Pettengill, a pioneer in radio astronomy, has died at 95. Pettengill helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration and contributed to numerous NASA missions.