A day in the life of a dark matter data wrangler
Maria Elena Monzani prepares an international team to search for clues to one of the biggest scientific mysteries.
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Light dark matter is a thousand times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous astrophysical analyses allowed
A SLAC/Stanford study of the population of satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way provides new clues about the particle nature of dark matter.
LIGO resumes gravitational wave search after upgrades
With some Stanford-led upgrades, the gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after a year of work. It’s now more sensitive than ever to spacetime ripples and will be joined by other detectors around the world.
NASA’s Fermi mission reveals record-setting gamma-ray bursts
Stanford has played a leading role in compiling Fermi’s gamma-ray bursts catalogs ever since the space observatory launched nearly 11 years ago
SLAC sends off woven grids for LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector
Four large meshes made from 2 miles of metal wire will extract potential signals of dark matter particles
A miniature camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will help test the observatory and take first images
SLAC completed its work on ComCam, a commissioning device to be installed in Chile later this year.
What Stanford researchers have learned from 300 stars
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An astronomical data challenge
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will manage unprecedented volumes of data produced each night.
Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle accelerators
SLAC scientists find a new way to explain how a black hole’s plasma jets boost particles to the highest energies observed in the universe. The results could also prove useful for fusion and accelerator research on Earth.