NASA has selected PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics and AXIS X-ray Probe (far-infrared & X-ray missions, respectively) for a competitive Phase A study. HUGE, heartfelt congrats & wishes of success to both teams ❤️, and HUGE ❤️ to the teams whose GREAT concepts weren't selected nasa.gov/news-release/n…

We are thrilled that AXIS has been selected to advance to Phase A. Our team is eager to continue supporting AXIS and the remarkable scientific discoveries it will deliver. #AXISTheXrayUniverse nasa.gov/news-release/n…

NASA just selected two probes for Phase A. With many amazing friends, I am part of the Science Team of AXIS X-ray Probe! We look forward to working with the entire X-ray community to make this mission come true and deliver many exciting discoveries in the high-energy Universe! GO AXIS!

Check out our work using JWST to look at the environment in which ancient supermassive black holes grow. With Jorryt Matthee Rohan Naidu Minghao Yue and the EIGER team!

Kip Thorne delivers the inaugural Stephen Hawking lecture at Harvard University Black Hole Initiative!

Another interesting Quanta Magazine article on the potentially intriguing role that self-interacting dark matter could play in the merger of binary supermassive black holes, beautifully written by Jonathan O’Callaghan with incredible visuals - check it out folks! quantamagazine.org/how-do-merging…

McGill University: Advanced X-Ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Mission Is One of Two Finalists in NASA Selection Process mcgill.ca/newsroom/chann…

Science team member Fabio Pacucci presents on the high-z SMBH science capable with AXIS! AXIS surveys will be farther, wider, and faster than currently possible. #AAS245

We now have science team member Daryl Haggard presenting on time-domain and multi-messenger science with AXIS.

Science team member Kevin Burdge now talks about the AXIS galactic plane and bulge survey!

Deputy-PI Erin Amira Kara now presents on GO AXIS science and how to get involved!

Webb is solving mysteries it created. Remember “little red dots?” They seemed too big to exist in the early universe... and maybe theory couldn’t account for them. It turns out they may be a new class of galaxy containing growing supermassive black holes. go.nasa.gov/4gSM5Ho

🚨🚨PhD Funded Positions in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy!🚨🚨 Research topics: low- and high-z observations, galaxy formation models and simulations, reionization, black holes, and magnetic fields. Call is now open: sns.it/en/phd-admissi…

Our next paper is out! We explore different Pop III initial mass functions and star-by-star modeling in galaxy simulations arxiv.org/abs/2502.20433

🚨 NASA TO GET $279M top line *INCREASE* from Senate CJS. MORAN says "we were able to protect NASA Science". FY24 Enacted for NASA was $24.838B. Request was $18.809B. CJS Bill will have NASA at 24.9B

"We rejected cuts that would have devastated NASA science. 7.3B FOR NASA SCIENCE

The whole Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and Smithsonian is delighted to welcome Rep. Congresswoman Valerie Foushee, Ranking Member of the House Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee, to the Chandra Observatory Control Room today. GREAT visit with phenomenal questions from the Congresswoman.

Ok now it’s public: the Senate CJS Bill+Report is a full defense of science at NASA and NSF. I’m at the wright bros’ field and can summarize later but here is NASA Astro at $1.6B, a ~70M increase over FY24

Happy 26th, Chandra Observatory. Not done yet. ❤️

It should continue to astonish all of us that this legendary crew survived this. One of the most triumphant stories of the young space age.