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  1. In a Q&A, Charles Baltay — Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics — discusses his work on a groundbreaking project that is creating a 3D map of the universe — and could answer longstanding questions about dark energy.

    DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here beneath the Milky Way. Photo credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks
  2. Yale's Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, led the discovery team that found the black hole, which is rocketing through its home galaxy at 2.2 million miles per hour.

  3. Yale researchers, including FAS faculty, study a mass extinction from the distant past, uncover hidden brain networks, and share expertise at an international meeting on enhanced weathering.

    Field team traveling to geologic outcrops of the end-Permian mass extinction in Svalbard.
  4. Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, led the analysis and coordinated the follow up program.

    Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted an object, named the Infinity Galaxy, that turns a basic rule of galaxy evolution on its head – a likely direct collapse black hole. Photo credit: Earth.com
  5. Basu, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Astronomy, speaks with a panel of guests about the role of our sun in human history and what the future holds for our nearest star.

  6. TIME Magazine highlights a recent discovery by Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, of a pair of spiral galaxies that collided in space.

  7. A Yale-led astronomy team may have discovered the first direct evidence of a supermassive black hole just after it formed — in a galaxy they’re calling “Infinity.”

    Image of the Infinity galaxy, observed with the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the result of a cosmic collision between two galaxies. The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were already present before the collision. Image credit: NASA, P. van Dokkum, G. Brammer.
  8. Earth.com interviews Malena Rice, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, about her recent study which maps binary stars.

    Malena Rice
  9. In a Q&A, astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli explains how black hole mergers and quasars are helping lay the groundwork for detecting a network of gravitational waves.

    An illustration of the proposed network of gravitational waves. Image credit: NANOGrav
  10. Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and contributions.

    Priyamvada Natarajan and Akiko Iwasaki