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January 22, 2025
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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…
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Awards Featured News
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January 16, 2025
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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…
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January 14, 2025
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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…
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January 13, 2025
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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…
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December 13, 2024
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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…
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November 6, 2024
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By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
CITA and Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie and collaborators were awarded close to a 100-million-core-hours on the German supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center, SuperMUC-NG. Beattie will utilize the immense computing power of SuperMUC-NG for the investigation of magnetic field generation in merging binary…
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September 30, 2024
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By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
“Van Gogh’s depiction of the starry night closely resembles the turbulence found in between the stars in our Galaxy”, explains CITA/ Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie for CNN.
The impressionistic painting of Van Gogh is not just an artist’s rendition of a summer night’s sky. As it turns out, the scrutiny of an…
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Featured Special Events
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August 28, 2024
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The CITA mentorship committee is once again hosting a Job App Hackathon! The CITA Job App Hackathon is an opportunity to prepare job application materials and get feedback from peers and mentors, including several CITA, Dunlap, and Physics faculty. In addition to co-writing sessions in the morning and afternoon, attendees will be able to sign-up for short one-on-one meetings wit…
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August 16, 2024
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CITA extends a warm welcome to our incoming Fellows and National Fellows. In September, we will be joined by four Fellows at our flagship at the University of Toronto and two national fellows at McGill University and the University of Victoria. We are committed to providing post-doctoral training for early career researchers in the field of Theoretical Astrophysics and are excited about t…
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July 22, 2024
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By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
In June the International Astronomical Union [IAU] announced the 2024 winners of three IAU prizes – the IAU Astronomy Outreach Prize, the IAU Astronomy Development Prize, and the IAU Astronomy Education Prize. The three awards recognize individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of…
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