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Professor Norman Murray Recognized as CAP Fellow Amidst String of Prestigious Honors
June 4, 2025
On May 30, 2025, Professor Norman Murray was appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). This…
J. RICHARD BOND AWARDED 2025 SHAW PRIZE IN ASTRONOMY
May 28, 2025
TORONTO, ON – May 28, 2025 – The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) proudly announces…
CITA Fellow James Beattie and his team use supercomputer simulations to challenge classical understanding of magnetic turbulence
May 13, 2025
Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in t…
CITA faculty member Norman Murray elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
May 2, 2025
University of Toronto professor and CITA faculty member Norman Murray has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of…
CITA Professor Norman Murray has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025
April 28, 2025
Professor Norman Murray from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is the only University of Toronto…
The SECRET Connection Hidden in the Universe: Brian Keating interviewing Richard J. Bond
April 23, 2025
Could entropy and coherence change everything we know about the universe? How does quantum information flow in t…
Astronomers snap clearest ’baby picture’ yet of the universe
March 24, 2025
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New research from the Atacama Cosmology Telesco…
Magnetized Plasma around Merging Black Holes Shines and Burst like the Corona of the Sun
January 22, 2025
What happens when the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies collide? This is the question explored in…
CITA faculty Maya Fishbach receives this year’s Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
January 16, 2025
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers, announced…
First-Ever Detection of Mid-IR Flares in Sgr A*- the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center
January 14, 2025
An international team of scientists, including CITA faculty Bart Ripperda and CITA graduate student Braden Gail, hav…