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Astronomers have detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen.
Funding from the PromoScience Program of NSERC and Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation to Discover the Universe.
University of Toronto astronomer, Maria Drout, has received a prestigious 2018 Azrieli Global Scholar Award from CIFAR.
NASA Hubble Fellow and Carnegie-Dunlap Fellow Maria Drout has won the Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award from Carnegie Institution for Science..
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of the most studied objects in astronomy: the remains of Supernova 1987A.
In May 2018, the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto celebrates its tenth anniversary.
A team of astronomers from the University of Toronto has made one of the highest resolution observations ever, of a pulsar a 6500 light-years away.
A team, including astronomers from the University of Toronto and Yale University, has discovered a unique galaxy—the first of its kind—that appears to contain virtually no dark matter.
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) has completed a planned major upgrade, making it ten times more sensitive and doubling its ability to resolve detail.
For the first time, astronomers have observed in visible light a cataclysmic cosmic event that generated gravitational waves detected on Earth.
