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  "id": 14697421,
  "title": "Kareem El-Badry Wins Packard Fellowship",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/kareem-el-badry-wins-packard-fellowship",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-15T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Caltech News",
    "slug": "caltech-news",
    "url": "https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/kareem-el-badry-wins-packard-fellowship"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Kareem El-Badry, associate professor of astronomy at Caltech, has been selected as one of 20 Packard Fellows for 2026. The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering provide just under $990,000 in unrestricted funds for early career researchers to use over a five-year period. Much of El-Badry's work involves uncovering hidden populations of black holes. Our Milky Way galaxy is teeming with…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}