News: Research

For my research topic I was set on doing “survey science”—using observations from large telescopes gathered into surveys to study our Universe and the physics of the objects within it, like galaxies, clusters, cosmic filaments, and voids.

Scientists at the University of Chicago received a pretty exciting delivery Friday. It is the first piece of a next generation telescope and it is designed to map the skies after-glow from the Big Bang.

The grainy image of a “super Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s observations ramp up.

Rafael Luque, a postdoctoral scholar and astronomer at the University of Chicago, and Enric Pallé, an astronomer at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands and the University of La Laguna, present tantalizing new evidence that these systems contain strange water-logged worlds, as well as rocky and gas-rich planets, that “could potentially be habitable if the appropriate conditions are met,” according to a study published on Thursday in Science. 

First unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide ushers in a new era of exoplanet science.

In their new paper, Holz and first author Jose María Ezquiaga suggest that they can use our newfound knowledge about the whole population of black holes as a calibration tool.

Funding round represents one of the largest in project history, with investments from Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), The University of Texas at Austin, University of Arizona, University of Chicago

Nebulas, galaxy clusters among first batch of images from James Webb Space Telescope, successor to Hubble

Zhijie Qu won a  2021 IAU PhD Prize

South Pole Telescope, UChicago scientists help take historic image of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.

Study including University of Chicago researchers analyzes aftermath of 2014 supernova

PSD scientist named co-spokesperson for international science collaboration mapping remnant light from the Big Bang.

Experiments point the way to solving mystery that keeps clusters hot.

Meet new Department member: Michael Zhang, Inaugural Margarett Burbidge Prize Postdoc Fellow

Meet new Department member: Tsang Keung Chan, Inaugural Margarett Burbidge Prize Postdoc Fellow