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Professor Norman Murray Recognized as CAP Fellow Amidst String of Prestigious Honors

On May 30, 2025, Professor Norman Murray was appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). This…

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J. RICHARD BOND AWARDED 2025 SHAW PRIZE IN ASTRONOMY

TORONTO, ON – May 28, 2025 – The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) proudly announces…

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CITA Fellow James Beattie and his team use supercomputer simulations to challenge classical understanding of magnetic turbulence

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in t…

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CITA faculty member Norman Murray elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

University of Toronto professor and CITA faculty member Norman Murray has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of…

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CITA Professor Norman Murray has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025

Professor Norman Murray from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is the only University of Toronto…

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The SECRET Connection Hidden in the Universe: Brian Keating interviewing Richard J. Bond

Could entropy and coherence change everything we know about the universe? How does quantum information flow in t…

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Astronomers snap clearest ’baby picture’ yet of the universe

March 21, 2025 by A&S News (Abbreviated by Lyuba Encheva)

New research from the Atacama Cosmology Telesco…

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Magnetized Plasma around Merging Black Holes Shines and Burst like the Corona of the Sun

What happens when the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies collide? This is the question explored in…

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CITA faculty Maya Fishbach receives this year’s Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers, announced…

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First-Ever Detection of Mid-IR Flares in Sgr A*- the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

An international team of scientists, including CITA faculty Bart Ripperda and CITA graduate student Braden Gail, hav…

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