Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the...
Let’s admit it: It’s been a pretty rough year for our neck of the Solar System. But it’s been a...
You know how stars do. They’re out there, doing their thing, fusing a whole bunch of hydrogen into helium, shining...
For a while now, physicists have been hunting for primordial black holes, exotic objects that could have formed in the...
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which...
There’s something a little off about our theory of the universe. Almost everything fits, but there’s a fly in the...
At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a “cosmic web” made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching...
The Universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Abell 2261 is in a class of its own. In the galaxy...
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio...
General relativity is a profoundly complex mathematical theory, but its description of black holes is amazingly simple. A stable black...
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio...
A team of researchers led by members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli...
