Tharindu Jayasinghe, a doctoral astronomy student, and Todd Thompson, interim chair and professor of astronomy, join Cincinnati Public Radio to discuss how their recent discovery of a black hole…
In its video comparing the sizes of black holes, the popular science YouTube channel “Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell” featured the recently discovered black hole “The Unicorn,” detected by a…
The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), an Ohio State-led automated telescope network that observes the entire sky every night, recently received a combined $3 million in…
The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to announce its 2021 Distinguished Professor Awards. This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service …
Ohio State’s Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP) is currently home to three postdoctoral fellows who were involved heavily in the DES project — Ami Choi, …
Astronomers have taken a big step forward in understanding the dark and violent places where stars are born.
“Every star in the sky, including our own sun, was born in one of these stellar…
By calculating the age of stars in our interstellar backyard, CCAPP astronomers Fiorenzo Vincenzo and Mathieu Vrard have provided the best evidence to date of the timing of how our early Milky Way…
The Office of Outreach and Engagement has awarded more than $215,000 to 23 recipients of 2021 Outreach and Engagement grants. Grants were awarded at a maximum amount of $10,000 to support…
A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of “dark energy” officially began Monday at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, when the Dark Energy…
