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Congratulations to Our New Fellows! 2017 American Physical Society Fellows: Hui Deng, Dragan Huterer, and Aaron Thomas Pierce (pictured top). 2018 Optical Society of America Fellow: Jennifer Ogilvie (pictured below).

LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced By Colliding Neutron Stars University of Michigan physicists contribute to both the gravitational-wave discovery and its optical follow-up

Kip S. Thorne, Winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Has U-M Physics Connections Professors of Physics Keith Riles (left) and Gregory Tarlé (right) at the Special Collections Library in Hatcher Graduate Library. Professor Kip Thorne is holding the original document where Galileo recorded his first observations of the moons of Jupiter with his new telescope. Photo credit: Pablo Alvarez (Outreach Librarian and Curator, Special Collections Library at UM)

U-M Physicists Contribute to Latest LIGO Black Hole Discoveries Above: circle heights and their proportional radii indicate individual black hole masses measured in different LIGO detections of binary black hole mergers. Also shown are black hole masses inferred from X-ray measurements of nearby binary systems containing black holes and an ordinary star.

New Dwarf Planet Solar System's 2nd Most Distant University of Michigan Physics Professor David Gerdes with his student research team: Undergraduate Tali Khain, Graduate Student Stephanie Hamilton, and Undergraduate Lynus Zullo

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UM Astrophysicist David Gerdes and Team in the Hunt for Planet 9

Does a new planet lurk far beyond Neptune?

A Modern Rutherford Experiment: Scientists Use Known Energy Neutrinos to Study Nucleus

For the first time, scientists including physicist Joshua Spitz and U-M Physics graduate students Rory Fitzpatrick and Johnathon Jordan have probed the nucleus using a previously unobserved source of known-energy neutrinos.

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