Before merging, both black holes were spinning exceptionally fast, and their masses fell into a range that should be very rare — or impossible.

Physicists unravel the secrets of the centuries-old practice of knitting in a new study that explores the physics of ‘jamming’ — a phenomenon when soft or stretchy materials become rigid under low stress but soften under higher tension.

Snigdaa Sethuram (Ph.D. PHYS 2025) recently joined the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility as a Margaret Butler Fellow in Computational Science.

Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.

J. Cole Faggert, a Ph.D. student in the School of Physics, will use multi-wavelength imaging to study supermassive black holes and the physics of their plasma flows.

Wang has been awarded a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity to develop mathematically grounded solutions for landing spacecraft.