Telescopes and cosmos

From Edwin Hubble to the Giant Magellan Telescope Project, the University of Chicago has been at the forefront of advancements in telescope technology, leading to new and revolutionary cosmological discoveries.

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Wendy Freedman

Big Brains

The Expanding Universe with Wendy Freedman (Ep. 5)

May 14, 2018
Merging black holes

Lecture series to examine growing research on gravitational waves

Alex Eskin

UChicago mathematician, physicists win $3 million ‘Oscars of science’

Parker and Fox

Eugene Parker on first year of namesake NASA mission: ‘It’s pretty exciting stuff’

Kepler mission rendering

New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Red giants

New measure of Hubble constant adds to mystery about universe’s expansion rate

Plasma in distant galaxy cluster

Scientists use X-rays from faraway galaxy cluster to reveal secrets of plasma

First image of supermassive black hole

UChicago scientists help capture first image of a black hole

Neutron star collision

How to use gravitational waves to measure the expansion of the universe

Daniel Holz

What Ripples in Space-Time Tell Us About the Universe with Daniel Holz (Ep. 17)

UChicago cosmologist discusses discovery of gravitational waves and colliding black holes.

The Victor M. Blanco Telescope

After mapping millions of galaxies, Dark Energy Survey finishes data collection