By Nadia Zakamska, Member in the School of Natural Sciences:
"If you thought that the Nobel-Prize-winning LIGO discovery of
stellar mass black hole mergers was cool, just think about the
possibility of merging black holes with masses millions or...
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has announced the
recipients of its 2021 prizes for outstanding achievements in
research and education, among them several current and former
scholars in the IAS School of Natural Sciences.
The World of Thinking will make its U.S. premiere on Sunday,
October 18, 2020 during the thirteenth annual Imagine Science Film
Festival, presented by Pioneer Works. After the screening, IAS
Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed,
who stars in the film, joins...
Stephen Adler, Professor Emeritus
in the School of Natural Sciences, speaks with VICE News about a small, unexpected nudge experienced
by spacecraft during planetary flybys.
The seemingly insignificant boost of a few millimeters per
second was...
“The most spectacular element of the Penrose calculations is
that he showed that if you are close enough to a black hole, time
ends. It is the mirror image of the Big Bang.”
—Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor
(Wall
Street...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what might the first
horizon-scale image of a black hole tell us? A new paper by
researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration,
which famously imaged M87’s central black hole, has provided
a...
Inverse spoke to Clifford Johnson, Member (1992–94)
in the School of Natural Sciences, on how he's battled
preconceived notions about race and physics, the kind of advice you
should be “happy to reject,” and why you shouldn't go ice skating
before...
IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf moderated a panel of Nobel Prize & Kavli Prize Laureates to discuss how curiosity-driven, blue-sky science can help address major challenges and prepare the world for an uncertain future post Covid-19.
