A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, Riverside, and the Carnegie Science Observatories to establish a unique research hub to study, through novel methods, dark matter and neutrinos.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has unveiled new, detailed images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, that reveal a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns near the black hole. The new images, constructed and validated by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute, show how the environment around the black hole may be changing more than we previously thought.

Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have created an AI model that forecasts solar wind speeds up to four days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. The breakthrough, published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, could protect satellites, navigation systems, and power grids from harmful space weather events.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these obscure cloudy areas, and the hot young stars that shape them.  

The first ab initio calculation of the rarest electromagnetic transition in atomic nuclei, the hexacontatetrapole E6 transition in ⁵³Fe, has been performed. Using the valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group (VS-IMSRG) methods with realistic nuclear force and bare nucleon charges, the study has successfully explained both the excitation energies and electromagnetic decay rates of the unique T_1/2 = 2.54-minutes J^π = 19/2^- isomer at 3.0 MeV. This study provides unprecedented insights into nuclear structure under extreme conditions and validates ab initio approaches for describing the high-multipole electromagnetic transitions in atomic nuclei. The research demonstrates that the formation of 19/2^- isomer arises from the pure 0f_7/2 orbital configuration.