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KU Department of Physics & Astronomy professor receives prestigious NSF award for black hole research
Elisabeth Mills, Assistant Professor of physics and astronomy, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to continue her groundbreaking research on supermassive black holes.
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Odderon discovered
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC, in collaboration with the DØ collaboration at the former Tevatron collider at Fermilab, have announced the discovery of the odderon – an elusive three-gluon state predicted almost 50 years ago.
Women Supporting Women in the Sciences
Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2) is an international initiative unifying and supporting graduate and professional-level women and allies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), while providing o
Ian Crossfield Helps Confirm First-ever Planet Found Orbiting White Dwarf Star
A University of Kansas astronomer played a key role on the team that today announced the first-ever discovery of a planet orbiting a white dwarf star. The finding, published in Nature, shows the likely presence of a Jupiter-sized planet, named WD 1856 b, orbiting the smaller star remnant every 34…