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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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Research

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

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.

Views of the early universe from a computer model

Research

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.

A cosmic pairing is bifurcated by a dynamic force shown in light as gases swirl about.

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."

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

PNAS

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

Podcast

Is Cosmology in Crisis?

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.

A dramatic spiral galaxy with orange and red arms and a light blue center

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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...

A telescope enclosure sits in front of two mountains under a blue sky

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.

Professor Muñoz on Fox 7