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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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CITA Professor Norman Murray is distinguished as a 2025 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

CITA Professor Norman Murray has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for his…

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The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Reports a Spectacular Flare from the Centre of the Messier 87 Galaxy

By Lyuba Encheva (with files from EHT press office)

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics researchers Bart…

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CITA Fellow James Beattie was awarded close to 100-million-core-hours to explore the nature of turbulence and dynamos

By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

CITA and Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James…

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Van Gogh’s depiction of the starry night closely resembles the turbulence found between the stars in our Galaxy

By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
“Van Gogh’s depiction of the starry night closely…

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CITA National Jamboree 2024

The Jamboree is an annual gathering of the CITA community from all over Canada, which provides an opportunity for new…

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Job App Hackathon 2024

What?
The CITA mentorship committee is once again hosting a Job App Hackathon! The CITA Job App Hackathon is an…

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CITA welcomes six Fellows to cohort 2024

CITA extends a warm welcome to our incoming Fellows and National Fellows. In September, we will be joined by four…

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