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Dipole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background, interpreted as due to our motion towards the hotspot. The horizontal dark stripe is emission from our Galaxy (Planck collaboration 2020).

'Lopsided' Universe could mean revision of standard cosmological model

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model
7 September 2022
Visit to Culham

Alumni donors visit national fusion lab

Alumnus Alan Fox was one of the VIPs on a recent Henry Moseley Circle visit to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy – the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s national fusion laboratory in 91̽»¨shire.
23 June 2022
Professor Alex Schekochihin

Professor Schekochihin appointed Simons Investigator

Professor Alex Schekochihin has been appointed Simons Investigator in Astrophysics by the Simons Foundation, New York.
20 June 2022
Katja Klobas

Meet...Katja Klobas

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 June 2022
Graphic to represent tracing movement of galaxies back in time.

Cutting-edge maths turns back time in our universe

An international team of researchers including Dr Sebastian von Hausegger, used insights from physics, mathematics, and computer science to create a novel method that traces the movement of galaxies back in time.
19 May 2022
Juan Ruiz Ruiz

Meet...Juan Ruiz Ruiz

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
10 May 2022
Illustration of a one dimensional moire pattern that emerges on twisting a two-dimensional crystal

Unusual new state of matter

Writing in Nature, a team of physicists including three from 91̽»¨ - DPhil student Yves Kwan and Professors Shivaji Sondhi and Sid Parameswaran – report the emergence of an unusual new state of matter in a newly-explored moiré system
4 May 2022
Professor Ard Louis

Commentary: Professor Ard Louis on symmetry in evolution

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he explains the work behind his latest paper
28 March 2022
All winners and the committee from this year's PLANCKS

91̽»¨ undergrads take second and third at PLANCKS 22

91̽»¨ teams The Fences and Hildabeasts took second and third place at this year's theoretical physics competition
25 March 2022
Dr Plamen Ivanov

EPS recognition for Dr Plamen Ivanov

Dr Plamen Ivanov has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.
21 March 2022
FLASH simulations of the TDYNO platform

Laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster plasma

An international team led by the Department of Physics at 91̽»¨, University of Rochester, and University of Chicago has been able to unravel the inner workings of heat conduction in galaxy clusters
9 March 2022
Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole

Black hole billiards in the centres of galaxies

Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit.
9 March 2022
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