Research Highlights

Right now, a few relativistic particles are passing through your head every second at the speed of light. They have more than ten million times more energy than our best particle accelerator can achieve, and scientists still don’t know how nature does that!

This century, astronomy will push beyond the confines of light and begin to detect new signals such as neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gravitational waves in multi-messenger astronomy

In the last post, we talked about astronomers pushing frontiers of knowledge. Gravitational waves represent perhaps the most peculiar frontier beyond light.

Several KIPAC members are running an experiment (LUX-ZEPLIN) almost a mile underground in South Dakota, looking for evidence of the invisible: dark matter!

The Universe has an invisible skeleton made of particles we can’t describe in our current theories, known only as dark matter.

X-ray astronomy unlocks a hidden universe of extreme events: from black holes and exploding stars to heated gas in galaxy clusters.

The Simons Observatory, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment which will soon begin to map this ancient light with exquisite precision

The cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the Big Bang, has been a treasure trove of information about the cosmos since its discovery in the 1960s.

Cosmological research is one of the most mind-blowing areas of modern-day scientific research for several reasons.

A century after the discovery of cosmic rays, delving into their mysteries remains a primary focus of high-energy astrophysics.