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Illustration features a ring of dark dust and a star swooping around the dust cloud with a circular, red-orange tail trailing behind it
Observing a one-star meal
Published June 28, 2017
Scientists find new ways to track stars eaten by black holes, promising to help paint a clearer picture of this cosmic phenomenon
Black hole illustration
Astrophysics
Can one cosmic mystery help solve another?
Published June 28, 2017
Astrophysicists from Johns Hopkins propose using mysterious fast radio bursts to help detect dark matter
Adam Riess
Space scholar
Nobel laureate Adam Riess named 22nd BDP
Published June 28, 2017
Astrophysicist won 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for his team's discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating
Space Studies
Universe expanding faster than predicted
Published June 28, 2017
JHU Nobel laureate Adam Riess says findings could shed light on composition of the universe
Space exploration
First for CLASS
Published June 28, 2017 Video
High-powered telescope peering into origins of the universe receives 'first light'
Space dust is illuminated by a quasar in an artist's rendition of the astronomical process
Hot out there
Why fewer stars are born
Published June 28, 2017
Evidence suggests radiation, winds from quasars significantly slowed star formation
Wave Hunters
Wave hunters
Published Spring 2016
Johns Hopkins astrophysicists seek to find out what happened after the Big Bang / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Great Barred Spiral Galaxy
What a blast
A galaxy far, far away
Published June 28, 2017
Spectrographic telescope could yield clues about how galaxies grow
Black hole devours star
Published June 28, 2017
JHU scientist leads international team in observing black hole swallowing star, ejecting flare moving at nearly the speed of light
JHU cosmologist honored
Published June 28, 2017
Alex Szalay receives IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award