Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM)—the vast ocean of gas and charged particles that lies between stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon, which all of us have witnessed. The swirly movement of mixing milk in a coffee cup is the same in principle as…
University of Toronto professor and CITA faculty member Norman Murray has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences during the Academy’s 162nd Annual Meeting. On April 29, the National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 members and 30 international members. The new members will be formally inducted at the 2026 NAS Annual Meeting.
Members are elected to the NAS in…
Professor Norman Murray from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is the only University of Toronto professor elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025. He has been distinguished as CLASS I: Mathematical and Physical Sciences scholar for his significant contribution to Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences along with six other esteemed researchers…
Could entropy and coherence change everything we know about the universe? How does quantum information flow in the cosmic superweb? And will quantum mechanics reveal our universe’s deepest secrets?
Dr. Brian Keating, a popular science communicator and podcaster, interviews one of CITA’s most renowned faculty members – Professor Richard Bond. During his decades long career, Bond has…
March 21, 2025 by A&S News (Abbreviated by Lyuba Encheva)
New research from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy from the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans.
Measuring light that has travelled for almost 14 billion years to reach a telescope high in the Chilean Andes, the two new images reveal t…
What happens when the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies collide? This is the question explored in a new article by CITA Postdoctoral fellow Sean Ressler, CITA faculty Bart Ripperda, CITA National Fellow Luciano Combi (University of Guelph/Perimeter Institute, and Caltech faculty Elias Most that just came out in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
At the centre of almost…
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers, announced today the recipients of some of its 2025 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.
This year the prestigious Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy was presented to CITA faculty Maya Fishbach for her “major contributions to the field of gravitational-wav…
An international team of scientists, including CITA faculty Bart Ripperda and CITA graduate student Braden Gail, have made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sgr A*.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists among whom CITA faculty Bart Ripperda and graduate student Braden Gail, detected for the first time a mid-IR flare from the supermassiv…
CITA Professor Norman Murray has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for his “seminal contributions to our theories of chaos in the solar system, including planet formation and evolution; and for pioneering new methods for studying the physics of black hole accretion and the effects of stars and supermassive black holes on galaxy formation.”
The American…
By Lyuba Encheva (with files from EHT press office)
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics researchers Bart Ripperda, Ue-Li Pen and Gibwa Musoke, who are part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, are among the authors of a paper outlining the results of a multi-wavelength observational campaign conducted in April 2018.
The authors report the first observation…