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AAS Honours Professor Peter Martin for Lifetime Leadership in Astronomy
January 8, 2026
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has announced Professor Peter Martin as the recipient of the 2026 Georg…
CITA Fellow James Beattie and Team Win Top Supercomputing Honour
December 4, 2025
A team led by CITA Fellow, Dr. James Beattie, received the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for “Top HPC-Enabled…
Invitation to a Special Colloquium with Shaw Laureate Professor J. Richard Bond
November 21, 2025
The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy &am…
Renowned planetary scientist Sara Seager joins U of T and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics as North Star Distinguished Professor
November 12, 2025
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A pioneer in the study of exoplanets and exoplanet atmospheres, Sara Seager is returning to her…
CITA Quarterly: New CITAzens and Other Updates
November 7, 2025
July – August – September
In this newsletter you will find a summary of recent faculty and council appointments,…
New events from LIGO’s 4th Observing Run Match Formation Channel Predicted by CITA Fellow Claire Shi Ye
October 28, 2025
In a new paper published Oct. 28 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK)…
What do black hole collisions look like?
CITA researchers have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287
Roughly…
Professor J. Richard Bond Accepts the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astrophysics
October 27, 2025
On October 21st CITA Professor J. Richard Bond accepted the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astrophysics, shared with Professor…
New EHT Images Reveal Black Hole’s Magnetic Field Flips Direction
September 16, 2025
Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns in supermassive black hole and…
CITA Researchers Spearhead Astrophysical Interpretation of Record-Breaking Gravitational Wave Run
August 27, 2025
In August 2025, the global network of gravitational-wave observatories operated by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK)…