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Astrophysics

Faculty news

Johns Hopkins theoretical physicist shares 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Published May 5, 2021

Marc Kamionkowski honored along with two others for work on cosmic microwave background

Illustration of double quasars in galaxies that are merging

Astrophysics

Hubble sees double

Published April 28, 2021

Grad student Hsiang-Chih Hwang helps refine the technique for identifying quasar pairs

Composite image of galaxy formations increasing in heat

Physics+Astronomy

Galaxies have gotten hotter as they've gotten older

Published Nov 10, 2020

As galaxies gather gases through their gravitational pull, they grow larger and heat up, allowing physicists to measure the gradual increase in temperature as a function of the age of the universe

Image of a colorful nebula with a white-hot center

Astrophysics

Johns Hopkins astrophysicists observe long-theorized quantum phenomena

Published July 30, 2020

A team led by students probes the mass-radius relation of white dwarf stars, observing in their data evidence of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity

Astronomy

Hubble finds black hole disk that shouldn't exist

Published July 15, 2019

The presence of a thin accretion disk in malnourished galaxy NGC 3147 defies current astronomical theories

Kudos

Heckman receives lifetime achievement award

Published Aug 13, 2018

Physics and Astronomy chair Tim Heckman awarded the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Astrophysics

Hubble's inconsistent constant

Published March 2, 2018

The universe is expanding faster than expected, and cosmologists aren't sure why

The moon appears in a reddish orange glow

Outer space

Super blue blood moon rising

Published Jan 30, 2018

Space Fellow Kirsten Hall sheds light on the three converging lunar events that will take place Wednesday morning and won't reoccur for another 37 years