UF graduate student and professor, Yigit Dallilar and Stephen Eikenberry, have discovered black holes to have significantly weaker magnetic fields than previously thought.
Congratulations to our CIRCE team and collaborators at GTC on our discovery. CIRCE is an infrared camera built by members of the UF Astronomy Department.
UF astronomers Dr. George Privon, Dr. Anthony Gonzalez and Dr. Desika Narayanan are members of teams selected to receive amongst the first ever data from new James Webb Space Telescope to study the physics of galaxy and formation near and far.
Privon's program: "A JWST Study of the Starburst-AGN Connection in Merging LIRGs"
Gonzalez & Naranayan's program: "TEMPLATES: Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and Their Extended Star Formation"
UF astronomers, Anthony Gonzalez and Desika Narayanan, collaborated in the observations of massive primordial galaxies suggesting a presence of a rare dark-matter halo in the early Universe.
For the first time, LIGO has discovered Gravitational Waves emitted from the collision of two neutron stars. Congratulations to everyone at UF Physics and UF Astronomy who were involved in this unprecedented discovery!
UF graduate student Jingzhe Ma and professor Anthony Gonzalez used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to capture a galaxy 12.7 billion light years away from Earth undergoing extraordinary star formation.
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