Dark matter at the heart of the Galaxy
A new study is providing evidence for the presence of dark matter in the innermost part of the Milky Way, including in our own cosmic neighbourhood and the Earth’s location. The study demonstrates that...
View ArticleA shocked neighbor?!
Discovering exploding stars, supernovae, within hours from explosion opens new windows to study their nature. Last year, our group at the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) was involved in...
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 for Neutrino Oscillations
The announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita (Univ. of Tokyo) and Arthur McDonald (Queen's University, Canada) for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, and thus the...
View ArticleThe XENON1T inauguration
Dark matter is one of the basic ingredients of the Universe, and searches to detect it in laboratory-based experiments are being conducted since decades. However, until today dark matter has been...
View ArticleHunting light dark matter with gamma rays
Physicists around the globe are working relentlessly to pin down the nature of dark matter. This enigmatic entity hides itself from our view as it does neither emit nor absorb any radiation. It only...
View ArticleStockholm joins the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collaboration
The Stockholm University Physics and Astronomy departments have joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collaboration. These researchers will use the observatory to help them better understand...
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