Gigantic X-rays flares offer new insight into the whirling maelstrom just outside supermassive black holes

Jesse Han is the recipient of the 2026 Robert J. Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the top thesis prize for astrophysics in North America.

It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say.

A world-leading dark matter detector observed a rare particle interaction that may represent dark matter, the invisible substance comprising most of the universe’s mass.