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JHU Astrophysicist-led Team Catches Black Hole Red-Handed in Stellar Homicide

Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than […]

Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Congratulations to our own Adam Riess, awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences! Adam Riess, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy and […]