cosmology

Researcher’s work will probe ‘elusive universe’ of neutrinos, dark matter and gravity

SpaceQ mission involves atomic clocks on spacecraft placed close to the sun

Collaboration produces most stringent test yet for existence of elusive particles

Using three observatories on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered the second-most distant quasar ever found. As part of an international effort to confirm and study the newly discovered object, a team at UCI and UC Santa Barbara used the Keck II 10-meter telescope to perform a spectroscopic analysis. The […]

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic eyes at the night sky for the first time recently to capture images showing its unique view of galaxy light. Mounted on a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, DESI was designed to explore the mystery of dark energy, which […]

Noted cosmologist is currently chair of Department of Physics & Astronomy

UCI, other astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A

Hubble Space Telescope data, new statistical method instrumental to research project

UC Irvine cosmologist Asantha Cooray is co-author of new findings to be published Nov. 7 in the prestigious journal Science.

Recent astronomical discoveries confirm UCI researchers’ role as galactic groundbreakers