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Researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have submitted a set of papers to the Astrophysical Journal, featuring a groundbreaking new map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky and extending deep into the cosmos.
The result confirms Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity which predicts how…
Faculty and Postdocs join to form CITA’s membership to this esteemed collaboration
Collaboration and discovery go hand in hand at the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). Working with the Virgo and KAGRA observatories – together forming the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration –, the group represents 4 observatories, 19 countries, 127 institutions, and over 1400 researchers. This scale is…
CITA is in the midst of welcoming three new faculty, a first in our history. This is an exciting moment for us as our new faculty broaden the expertise at CITA and expand the work that we do. From gravitational wave astronomy and cosmology to plasma physics, these three CITAzens are asking new questions about the universe and discovering novel ways to answer them. Welcome Profs. Maya Fischbach,…
Professor Dick Bond was featured in Curt Jaimungal’s Theories of Everything on February 1st. Watch Bond discuss multiverse, Hubble Tension, and dark…
A cross-Canada collaboration including the University of Toronto has won the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a groundbreaking radio telescope — one of the most novel and…
The CITA National Jamboree is an annual event with short presentations from all CITA faculty, postdocs, and grad students describing their research. It is an opportunity for incoming postdocs and students and anyone who wants to learn more about CITA and the research done here.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 @12-5pm EST (in-person/zoom)
McLennan Physical Laboratories (MP) 1318A
Organizers…
Ue-Li Pen is professor in the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and a theoretical astrophysicist whose work often extends beyond traditional boundaries. He has contributed to the rapidly growing field of 21-cm cosmology, culminating in Canada’s preeminent astronomical achievements of the last decade, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment…
The Solvay Institutes have selected Professor Juna Kollmeier of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the University of Toronto as its 2022 Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics. Prof. Kollmeier is the first scientist from Canada to receive this honour, whose past 16 recipients have included two Nobel Laureates.
Prof. Kollmeier is the Director of CITA and…
This week, astronomers revealed the first image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy not so far, far away — our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the centre of the Milky Way. Known as Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*, this object was strongly believed to be a black hole.
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