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May 22, 2020
A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure. It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies — and the...
May 13, 2020
Physicists from Yale are looking deep beneath a mountain in central Italy for proof of how matter was created in the universe — and a new batch of data is narrowing the...
May 12, 2020
  Each year, Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) recognizes faculty members who are exceptional advocates for the professional, scholarly and personal...
May 6, 2020
The 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Lars Hernquist, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and Volker Springel, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,...
Nicholas Read
April 30, 2020
Yale physicist Nicholas Read has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, one of the most highly regarded honors bestowed upon scientists in the United Kingdom and select...
The planet MASCARA-2 b, a Jupiter-like gas giant roughly 2.68 quadrillion miles from Earth (Illustration by Sam Cabot)
April 22, 2020
Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it’s so hot the air contains vaporized metals. The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140...