Joint Space-Science Institute
The Joint Space-Science Institute is a research partnership between the Astronomy and Physics departments at University of Maryland (UMD) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
JSI Fellow Awarded 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship
Sasha Philippov awarded Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship — read more here!
JSI Colloquium
Speaker : Prof. Erin Kara (MIT)
Title : Black hole accretion in the TDAMM Era
Place/time : UMD PSC1136; Monday, 26th Feb at 3:15pm (refreshments from 2:45pm)
UMD & NASA
JSI was created in 2010 to foster interdisciplinary collaborations between astronomers, physicists and astrophysicists in fields related to the study of strong gravity in black holes, high-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics, cosmology and gravitational waves.
JSI Research News
- JSI Fellow James Drake Leads Study to Identify Mechanism Driving the Sun’s Fast Wind
- NASA’s Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars
- Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole
- JWST Uncovers Massive Galaxy Cluster Surrounding a Powerful Red Quasar
- NSF Awards UMD $1.6 for New Laser System
- UMD Scientists Help Uncover Origins of Castaway Gamma-ray Bursts
- Richard Mushotzky Awarded 2022 Henry Norris Russell Lecturship by AAS