2021
Interview with Dan Hooper “What happened at the big bang?”, New Scientist
February 5, 2021
For Dan Hooper, head of theoretical astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Chicago, solving these questions involves radically rethinking what we think we know about the universe’s very early history.
Interviewed by Richard Webb, Executive Editor, New Scientist at the Royal Institution, London in Feb 2020.
Joshua Frieman named Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
February 5, 2021
Citation: "Joshua Frieman (Fermilab / University of Chicago): For significant theoretical work on inflationary cosmology and dark energy and for pioneering contributions to optical survey science."
NASA selects PUEO to Study Universe’s Secrets
January 11, 2021
PUEO is a balloon mission designed to launch from Antarctica that will detect signals from ultra-high energy neutrinos, particles that contain valuable clues about the highest energy astrophysical processes, including the creation of black holes and neutron star mergers. Neutrinos travel across the universe undisturbed, carrying information about events billions of light years away. PUEO would be the most sensitive survey of cosmic ultra-high energy neutrinos ever conducted. The principal investigator is Abigail Vieregg of the University of Chicago.
“Ripples in space-time could provide clues to missing components of the universe”, UChicago News
January 1, 2021
UChicago scientist lays out how LIGO gravitational waves could be scrambled, yielding information.
“Gravitational waves are the perfect messenger to see these possible modifications of gravity, if they exist.”—Astrophysicist Jose María Ezquiaga
2020
Congratulations to Grayson Rich
October 7, 2020
He has accepted a position as a Consultant at Bain & Company in Chicago, and in this capacity he will focus on strategy and management.
“Dark matter detector picks up unexplained new signal”, UChicago News
June 17, 2020
XENON1T data could be either evidence of new particle physics or unexpected contaminant.
“Leftover Big Bang light helps calculate how massive faraway galaxies are”, UChicago News
March 3, 2020
Fermilab, UChicago scientists tap South Pole Telescope data to shed light on universe
A team of scientists have demonstrated how to "weigh" galaxy clusters using light from the earliest moments of the universe - a new method that could help shed light on dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of the cosmos, such as how the universe formed.
“New Solar Telescope Reveals Sun’s Surface in More Detail than Ever Before”, WTTW News
February 13, 2020
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has captured images of the sun unlike any seen before. Professor Robert Rosner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and one of the lead investigators on the project, says he’s been waiting for almost 40 years to see images like the ones recently captured.
2019
New measure of Hubble constant adds to mystery about universe’s expansion rate
July 16, 2019
In a forthcoming paper, UChicago scientists announce a new measurement of the universe’s expansion that uses red giant stars.
NASA Press Release
Commentary in Science Magazine
Scientists measure half-life of element that’s longer than the age of the universe
May 1, 2019
Astronomers Take First-Ever Picture of a Black Hole
April 11, 2019
After mapping millions of galaxies, Dark Energy Survey finishes data collection
January 9, 2019
2018
Gravitational waves could soon provide measure of universe’s expansion
October 22, 2018
Next-gen camera for South Pole Telescope takes data on early universe
September 10, 2018