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An artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center shooting out bright jets of radiation above and below the galactic disc.
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NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
A quasar emits exceptional amounts of energy generated by matter falling into a supermassive black hole.

The earliest quasars yet observed are shedding light on the infancy of our cosmos

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Many Bodies, Many Possibilities
An artist's impression of a binary neutron star merger

The Art of Doing Science

The Parent Trap

The Goldilocks Supernova
A depiction of an ion trap holding a detectable “bright” radium ion and co-trapped “dark” radioactive molecule.

A Rewarding Endeavor

Subterranean Investigations

Making Waves

‘A New Era of Computing’

Mixing Massive Stars

‘A Sense of Belonging’

Come One, Come All
Bill Paxton looks out at the the ocean from the cupola of Kohn Hall.

An Accidental Astrophysicist
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