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Astronomers pave the way in the search for supermassive black hole binaries in the hearts of galaxies

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Chris Sasaki – A&S News A team of astronomers has bolstered the evidence for the existence of one of the most remarkable, yet elusive, phenomena in the universe: pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in orbit around each other in the centres of galaxies. Their research, recently

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Revealing a Hidden Universe: First-of-its-kind telescope MOTHRA unveiled

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute What began in 2013 as a novel telescope made from combining just three commercially available telephoto camera lenses has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis into one of the world’s most powerful telescopes. The Dragonfly Telephoto Array has evolved into MOTHRA, a next-generation telescope

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Renowned planetary scientist Sara Seager joins U of T and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics as North Star Distinguished Professor

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By A&S News A pioneer in the study of exoplanets and exoplanet atmospheres, Sara Seager is returning to her alma mater, the University of Toronto (U of T), to join the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) as North Star Distinguished Professor, starting September 1, 2026. “I’m excited to return home as a

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Professor Renée Hložek Awarded 2025 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Renée Hložek, Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, is one of six researchers who was awarded the 2025 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).

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UTSC Astronomy Student is the 2025 Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research Recipient

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Toronto Scarborough student Aishani Chaudhuri, who just started her third year specializing in Physics and Astrophysics, is this year’s recipient of the Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research. This past summer, Chaudhuri participated in

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SURP Student Spotlight: Steven (Tianyu) Luo

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