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CITA marks 40th anniversary with global gathering at the University of Toronto.
July 13, 2026
Originally published by A&S News.
The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) marked its 40t…
50 Years of Exploring the Cosmos: The Incredible Legacy of Dick Bond
June 3, 2026
How do you map out the entire universe? For University of Toronto astrophysicist Dick Bond, you do it with fiv…
Supercomputer Reveals How Exploding Stars “Stir” the Galaxy from the Bottom Up
June 1, 2026
New research performed on the Trillium/SciNet Supercomputer at the University of Toronto reveals a fundamentally…
How a Cosmic Cloud Becomes a Solar System: Scientists Discover the “EnDTranZ” Missing Link
April 15, 2026
Shantanu Basu, Interim Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, is part of an internationa…
New Study Finds Evidence of Cosmic Explosions with Missing Black Holes
April 1, 2026
CITA researchers Maya Fishbach, Amanda Farah and Aditya Vijaykumar are part of an international team that has uncovered…
Astronomers pave the way in the search for supermassive black hole binaries in the hearts of galaxies
March 30, 2026
A team of astronomers including CITA postdoctoral fellow Aretaios Lalakos and CITA Professor Richard Bond, has…
CITA Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie Wins Hubble Fellowship to Decipher the Origin of Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe
March 25, 2026
Dr. James Beattie, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and Princeton…
CITA Researcher Helps Locate the “Missing Link” in Giant Black Hole’s Power Source
January 28, 2026
New data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided scientists with a first-of-its-kind look at the “exhaust…
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…