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title: "MESA news"
description: "News from the MESA project: the July 2026 kick-off with the NSF Integrated Data Systems & Services program, and co-investigator CK Chan's work with OpenAI on simulations of black holes"
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# MESA news

**News from MESA.** Project milestones, and work by the MESA team.[^news-src]

This document is the Markdown twin of
<https://idss-mesa.github.io/news.html>.

## News

- **MESA kicks off with NSF IDSS, July 2026.** The project team convenes with
  the NSF Integrated Data Systems & Services program for the MESA kick-off
  meeting — the University of New Mexico, the University of Arizona, and
  UNC-CH/RENCI, setting the two-year prototype baseline in motion.
- **Creating new simulations of black holes, with OpenAI.** Co-investigator
  CK Chan, Ph.D. worked with OpenAI on
  [creating new simulations of black holes](https://openai.com/index/creating-new-simulations-black-holes/)
  — a look at agentic coding against Event Horizon Telescope
  science.[^openai-black-holes]

The rest of the site starts at [MESA](home.md).

[^news-src]: MESA news page source (news.html)
[^openai-black-holes]: Creating new simulations of black holes (OpenAI)