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Welcome to the Yale Physics Department, a center of research and training, in which our vibrant community works together with each other, and with collaborators across Yale’s campus, the country, and the world to answer fundamental scientific questions that are pushing the frontiers of our current understanding of the universe.

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To ‘Infinity’ and beyond — a look at a newborn black hole

July 16, 2025
A Yale-led astronomy team may have discovered the first direct evidence of a supermassive black hole just after it formed — in a galaxy they’re calling “Infinity.” Yale...
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Weaving a tapestry of gravitational waves, with quasars as guides

July 7, 2025
In a Q&A, astrophysicist Chiara Mingarelli, assistant professor of physics, explains how black hole mergers and quasars are helping lay the groundwork for detecting a...

‘Great Immigrants, Great Americans’ award honors Yale’s Natarajan

July 2, 2025
Priyamvada Natarajan is one of two Yale faculty members who have been named to the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” list for 2025....
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Yale Physics students awarded 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

June 25, 2025
Yale Physics graduate students Jackie Baeza-Rubio*, Eunice Beato*, Halona Dantes, Avery Hanna+, Cecily Lowe*; undergraduate  student Aaron Chizhik ‘25* and undergraduate ...
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