M87* One Year Later: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow

Jan 18, 2024
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, using data from observations taken in April 2018.

Can Cosmic Collisions Be Predicted Before They Happen?

LIGO researchers Surabhi Sachdev, Ryan Magee, and Shreya Anand.
Mar 18, 2023
LIGO researchers are developing early-warning software to nab neutron-star mergers faster

Cosmic Slurp: Researchers Predict Signs of Black Holes Swallowing Stars

This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star that is ripped apart by tidal forces as it falls into a black hole. Some of the gas is also being ejected at high speeds into space. Using observations from telescopes in space and on the ground, astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet for this violent process. (Credit: NASA, S. Gezari, The Johns Hopkins University and J. Guillochon, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Apr 17, 2014 - Atlanta, GA
Using theoretical and computer-based approaches, researchers are trying to predict the dynamics of how black holes devour stars.

Georgia Tech Home to World’s Third and Final Statue of Einstein

Oct 23, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
New statue of Albert Einstein sits near the northwest corner of Tech Green.

Entering the Strange World of Ultra-Cold Chemistry

Image shows results from massive parallel computer quantum simulations of two and three ultra-cold fermionic atoms trapped in a double well confinement and interacting via strong replusive and attractive contact interactions, showing formation of entangled states and highly correlated Wigner molecules. See additional figure description. (Credit: Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Science)
Oct 29, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Tech has received a grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study the unusual chemical and physical properties of atoms and molecules at ultra-cold temperatures.

From the Butterfly's Wing to the Tornado: Predicting Turbulence

NOAA stock press handout image of a tornado. Please credit: NOAA/OAR/ERL/NSSL. To be used in turbulence story. (Do not use out of context.)
Mar 15, 2017 - Atlanta, GA
Remember the adage about a flapping butterfly's wing triggering a tornado? Physicists are getting better at predicting the wiles of turbulence.

Coffee Leads to Collaboration

Researchers Will Ratcliff (left) and Peter Yunker at Highland Bakery.
Aug 08, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Meetings over coffee led two professors to collaborate on research.
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