News
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...
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.
McDonald Observatory
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.
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.
Gravity Research Foundation
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."
PNAS
QnAs with Katherine Freese
Katherine Freese is interviewed for PNAS by Paul Gabrielsen about dark matter and dark energy.
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...
Is Cosmology in Crisis?
A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.
Postcards from the Field: First Light for a New High-Desert Telescope
Scientists at the Simons Observatory in Chile, including Katie Freese and Nick Galitzki, probe the cosmic microwave background for clues about the history of the...
Fox 7
Total Eclipse of the Horns
UT Austin's Julian Munoz, assistant professor of astronomy, talked about the total eclipse with a local TV station.