South Pole Telescope

The long and strange lives of Enrico Fermi’s accelerator building at UChicago

Campus space has shaped scientific research, from cosmic rays to the Higgs boson to dinosaur fossils

Erik Shirokoff, astronomer who built instruments to map the universe, 1979-2023

Known as a generous and patient mentor and teacher, Shirokoff was a faculty member in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and a senior member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, focusing on studying the evolution of the universe and the formation of stars and galaxies.

Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe

Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey, South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe

Event Horizon Telescope takes pioneering image of massive jet spewing from black hole

UChicago-led South Pole Telescope helps pinpoint location of supermassive black hole in galaxy Centaurus A