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An artist's rendering of a neutron star against the black background of space surrounded by a purple accretion disk and ejecting a bright white stream of x-rays from either pole.

Rishabh Datta is recreating celestial X-ray bursts in a lab

Rishabh Datta, a 5th year PhD student who recently defended his thesis, recently published a paper called “Plasmoid formation and strong radiative cooling in a driven magnetic reconnection experiment”. The article, which was an Editor's Suggestion in Physical Review Letters, demonstrated that it's possible to recreate extreme astrophysical evens in a lab. His paper was also featured on the cover of the April issue of Physics of Plasma and was a Research Highlight in Nature Astronomy

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Datta arms crossed in hall in front of photo display

Exploring the bow shock and beyond

Rishabh Datta’s main focus is, “Can we create this high energy plasma that is moving supersonically in a laboratory, and can we study it? And can we learn things that are hard to diagnose in an astrophysical plasma?”

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Jack Hare, MIT

Mapping the depths of plasma physics

In his new lab where he will study how plasma behaves in the universe, assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering Jack Hare draws inspiration from spelunking.

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