CITA researchers Maya Fishbach, Amanda Farah and Aditya Vijaykumar are part of an international team that has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, shedding light on one of the most cataclysmic events in the Universe. Their study, published in Nature today, confirms that black holes with masses larger than 45 times the mass of the sun are the result of previous black hole mergers,…
Annual Archives
2026
Astronomers pave the way in the search for supermassive black hole binaries in the hearts of galaxies
A team of astronomers including CITA postdoctoral fellow Aretaios Lalakos and CITA Professor Richard Bond, has bolstered the evidence for the existence of one of the most remarkable, yet elusive, phenomena in the universe: pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in orbit around each other in the centres of galaxies.
Their research, recently published in the journal Astronomy &am…
CITA Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie Wins Hubble Fellowship to Decipher the Origin of Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe
Dr. James Beattie, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and Princeton University, was awarded a prestigious Hubble Fellowship, announced the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) on behalf of NASA today.
This fellowship will allow him to build the next generation of supercomputer models to probe how the early Universe may have become magnetized by…
CITA Researcher Helps Locate the “Missing Link” in Giant Black Hole’s Power Source
New data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided scientists with a first-of-its-kind look at the “exhaust pipe” of a supermassive black hole.
Sebastiano von Fellenberg, a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), is part of an international team that has identified the likely starting point of a massive cosmic jet — a powerfu…
AAS Honours Professor Peter Martin for Lifetime Leadership in Astronomy
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has announced Professor Peter Martin as the recipient of the 2026 George Van Biesbroeck Prize for his “long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy.” The AAS, a leading international body for astronomers since 1899, grants this award every two years to honour individuals whose lifelong commitment to scientific discovery and social good…