2024-10-16

Oskar Klein Centre

Glimmers of antimatter to explain the "dark" part of the universe

New research by recent OKC member Pedro de la Torre Luque and current OKC member Tim Linden shows how the AMS-02 experiment on the International Space Station can shed light on the nature of dark matter.

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2024-10-09

Oskar Klein Centre

Matthew Hayes writes about black holes in The Conversation

Matthew Hayes from the Astronomy Department at Stockholm University has recently published an article in The Conversation describing a new result concerning the population of supermassive black holes in the early Universe.

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2024-09-18

NASA’s Hubble finds more black holes than expected in the early universe

With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holes were created.

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2024-06-11

Department of Astronomy

ANDES gets go-ahead to be installed at the Extremely Large Telescope

An agreement on the installation of ANDES, the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph, at ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) has been signed. Sweden is directly involved in ANDES through SELTIC (Swedish ELT Instrument Consortium) which consist of scientists and engineers from Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and Lund University.

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