In the early 1970s, Tom Bolton, an astronomer working at the University of Toronto’s David Dunlap Observatory, was the first to find strong physical evidence that black holes exist. Now, more than ...

Fourteen years ago Clarence Augustus Chant, longtime professor of astrophysics at University of Toronto, gave a talk on a comet, in his usual simple lyrical style, to a group of amateur astronomers.

The University of Toronto has sold the David Dunlap Observatory and its surrounding property to a development company for 70 million Canadian dollars, or about $68-million. The vice president of the ...