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  • In a Nutshell: Black Holes and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

    This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics have just been announced. This year, the award went to astrophysicists who made a significant contribution to the study of black holes. ITMO.NEWS and Anastasia Topchieva, junior research associate at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explain what the scientists studied and what their research means. 

    07.10.2020

  • We Were Born In the Stars: An Astrophysicist’s Lecture at ITMO

    Alexander Ivanchik, an astrophysicist with a PhD in Physics and Mathematics and a researcher at the Ioffe Institute, gave a lecture on the Open Day of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering. Read on to learn about the history of cosmology and the stories of Nobel Prize Laureates who studied space. 

    06.12.2019