Atomic and Molecular Physics, High Energy Astrophysics, Optical and Infrared Astronomy, Radio and Geoastronomy, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences, Theoretical Astrophysics, Harvard University ...

UMBRELA Dialogues offers an opportunity for CfA members to learn about the latest research and developments in the field of black holes and active galaxies. The aim of UMBRELA Dialogues is to bring ...

CfA astronomers helped lead a study discovering changes in the bright ring around M87's black hole, confirming the theoretical understanding of the variable and turbulent flow of material around black ...

Analyzing more than two decades' worth of supernova explosions convincingly bolsters modern cosmological theories and reinvigorates efforts to answer fundamental questions. Cambridge, MA – ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test observations achieving the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of the Earth, by detecting light from the centers of ...

A new study shows that planets bigger than Earth and smaller than Neptune are common outside the Solar System. These results are another example of how planetary systems can be different from our ...

Cambridge, Mass. – For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star. The stricken world appears destined to spiral closer and ...

A few years ago, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: an enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun ...

Astronomers calculate that the Oort Cloud may be home to more visiting objects than objects that belong to our solar system. Cambridge, MA-- In 2019, astronomers spotted something incredible in our ...

Cambridge, MA-- Astronomers analyzing 3D maps of the shapes and sizes of nearby molecular clouds have discovered a gigantic cavity in space. The sphere-shaped void, described today in The ...

CfA astronomers led two new EHT studies that have produced the first polarized light image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. Cambridge, MA--A new image from the ...

New high-resolution simulations show one million galaxies forming some 13 billion years ago. Cambridge, MA-- It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting ...