Excited about this press release on Raga's great work finding elusive intermediate-mass black holes in galaxies! This work started during her PhD (Arizona College of Science). Nice to see it come to fruition & also a glimpse of what the future holds with much more DESI Survey data in hand 🤩

In the current situation, this neat video fees like a small light in a sea of darkness. Made by NOIRLab to go along our press release on "DESI Uncovers 300 New Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Plus 2500 New Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies" 🖤 youtube.com/watch?v=C-ZY6c…

Press Release regarding our recent paper ... 🤩

Been working a lot lately and last night I went to bed exhausted with my hair still wet from the shower so this morning.... I'm an astrophysicist with a fluffy mane 🙈

Yayyy! It's now official, check out this thread from DESI Survey about new cosmological results that "strengthen hints toward evolving dark energy, with major implications for our understanding of the nature and fate of the universe." 😍

Change is in the air. New data strengthen a hint that dark energy, long thought to be constant force in the universe, might change over time. sciencenews.org/article/map-ga…

Is dark energy changing over time? By mapping nearly 15 million galaxies & quasars, the @DESISurvey's largest 3D map of our Universe suggests that dark energy could be changing over time 🤯 noirlab.edu/public/news/no… 📷DESI/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor

DESI's DR2 BAO results are out!! TL;DR... 1/n DESI Survey

Organized a modest but heartfelt celebration of DESI Survey's achievements & data release in our courtyard at work. So proud of being a part in something big like... our expanding universe 🚀 (also a nod to SPARCL with the SPARCLy cupcakes ✨) #astronomy #datascience

Today we say goodbye to ESA’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia! The ESA Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning and will be switched off this morning.

Researchers peered beneath Mars' surface and found evidence for an ancient ocean -- my newest story for AGU's Eos: eos.org/articles/burie… AGU's Eos

BOOM! What a beautiful #SolarFlare (just now). This eruptive event reached the X-class level, and produced this stunning coronal mass ejection. The flare source region will rotate to face Earth in the coming week. Further strong solar activity is likely! #spaceweather

Due to popular demand, I've added a table of foundation models in astro to this blog post.

We had a blast seeing everyone at #AAS246! So many great questions & conversations - thank you! If you missed asking us something, let us know now via X! Can't wait to see all of you again soon! #NOIRLab

Congrats to the @DESISurvey for winning the 2026 Berkeley Prize from the @aas_office 🏆 By creating the largest 3D map of the Universe with ~15 million galaxies, they found dark energy may be changing over time! 🎞️DESI Collab/DOE/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor

** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT ** Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the LIGO-EGO & the Virgo Collaboration-KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility. PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open

The first annual Astro Data Lab user survey closes tomorrow, September 30. If you haven’t already, please fill it out to help shape the future of the Data Lab! 👉 User Survey: datalab.noirlab.edu/usersurvey