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More Dark Star Candidates Found in JWST Data

A growing list of dark star candidates could help explain why some early galaxies were so big, so early in the universe.

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Stephen Hawking Was Right: Black Holes Always Grow in Area

Researchers celebrate 10th anniversary of gravitational wave discovery, announce verification of a Hawking theorem.

In this screenshot from a computer simulation, two objects leaving behind a white trail sprial inward and collide against the black background of space

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Summer Happenings - June

See some of the excitement from Dr. Katie Freese's recent visit to the Campagna Conference in Italy!

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Katherine Freese BSA Distinguished Lecture: Mystery of Dark Matter

Katherine Freese gave a lecture, titled "The Mystery of Dark Matter in the Universe," at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory on Wednesday...

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Dark Matter Might Have Formed Earlier than Thought

The new model is called WIFI, which stands for dark matter production during Warm Inflation via Freeze-In.

A horn-shaped illustration shows how the universe expanded rapidly during a period called cosmic inflation, with black dots representing the formation of dark matter particles throughout this period

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Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology’s Two Biggest Puzzles

Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected.

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Improved Method for Estimating the Hubble Constant with Gravitational Waves

There’s a big debate in cosmology about how fast the universe is currently expanding.

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Fischler Wins Gravity Research Foundation Essay Award

Willy Fischler won the 2024 GRF Essay Award for "Holographic Inflation, Primordial Black Holes and Early Structure Formation."

Illustration of a supermassive black hole wth millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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QnAs with Katherine Freese

Katherine Freese is interviewed for PNAS by Paul Gabrielsen about dark matter and dark energy.

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2024 Weinberg Memorial Lecture

Dr. James Peebles, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, joins the Weinberg Institute at UT Austin's Physics Department to present "The Expanding Universe...

2024 Weinberg Memorial Lecture