Researchers have successfully conducted an experiment to verify strong-field quantum electrodynamics with exotic atoms, using a state-of-the-art X-ray detector for high-precision measurements of muonic characteristic…
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters reports that a team of international researchers, led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and…
By using machine learning and state-of-the-art supernova nucleosynthesis, a team of researchers has found the majority of observed second-generation stars in the universe were enriched…
An international team of researchers, including those from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), have published a new…
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be the trick to uncovering the…
Researchers have used gamma rays to detect a small neighboring galaxy. According to a new study recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, an international…
Many processes in astrophysics take a very long time, making their evolution tricky to study. For example, a star like our sun has a lifespan…
A novel photolithography technique could be a manufacturing game-changer for optical applications. Technologies that depend on lightweight, high-precision optical systems, like space telescopes, X-ray mirrors,…
Scientists including MIT’s Jacqueline Hewitt and Nicholas Kern share long-awaited results, getting closer to the universe’s first stars. All through history, humans have created and…
Finding the hypothetical particle axion could mean finding out for the first time what happened in the Universe a second after the Big Bang, suggests…
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and Project Researcher Matthew Dodelson on…
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say. MIT astronomers have discovered new and unusual galactic neighborhoods that previous studies…
Recently discovered ripples of spacetime called gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove the theory that life survived the Big Bang because of a phase…
What is the origin of black holes and how is that question connected with another mystery, the nature of dark matter? Dark matter comprises the…
Recalibrated Betelgeuse’s mass, radius, and distance. Betelgeuse is normally one of the brightest, most recognizable stars of the winter sky, marking the left shoulder of…
MIT-led NASA mission finds a multi-planetary system that could be an “ideal laboratory” to study planetary formation and evolution. MIT researchers have discovered four new…
The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many interdisciplinary projects which benefit from the synergy of…
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature…
