In an article published Oct. 9 in the journal Science, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Timothy Heckman, and Claus Leitherer from STScI, look at SDSS J0921+4509 to measure its radiation leaks in an […]
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Collin L. Broholm named a Moore Experimental Investigator
Prof. Collin L. Broholm is one of the 19 new Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials. The 5-year program from The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation seeks to help fund […]
Bruce Barnett to Retire After 50 years
After a 50-year teaching career, including 39 years at Hopkins, Dr. Bruce Barnett will retire at the end of 2014. Barnett has contributed to major research discoveries in particle physics. […]
Rosemary Wyse Plays Key Role in Mapping Material Between the Stars in Milky Way
An international team of scholars, including professor Rosemary Wyse, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer […]
Marc Kamionkowski Receives Prestigious Simons Foundation Award
Professor Marc Kamionkowski, who is developing theories to explain how the universe was formed, is one of six physicists who have been selected to receive a 2014 Simons Foundation Investigator […]
NASA Celebrates Anniversary WMAP Space Mission Launch, Led by Charles Bennett
June 30th marks the 13th anniversary of the launch of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which was conceived to measure the oldest light in the universe. The mission, led […]
Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage Lead CLASS Group
Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage are building a telescope meant to look at space in a way no one has before, hoping to probe the blackness between planets, stars and […]
Four JHU Physicists Develop Technique for Measuring the Higgs Boson’s Half-life
Prof. Andrei Gritsan and graduate students Ian Anderson, Ulascan Sarica and Chris Martin recently attempted to measure the Higgs boson’s half-life and determined that it is at least 20 yoctoseconds. […]
JHU Astrophysics Team Builds CLASS Telescope to Study Origins of the Universe
How did it all begin? That is the fundamental question that Johns Hopkins astrophysicists Charles Bennett and Tobias Marriage hope to shed light on with the latest project, the Cosmology […]
Big Bang’s Ripples: Chuck Bennett on NPR
“Penzias and Wilson rocked my world,” says our own Charles Bennett on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Find out more about the work of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who discovered the afterglow of the Big Bang 50 years ago, and its effect on the work of other astronomers. Listen to the story online.