Katherine Freese ’77, a physicist at the University of Texas, Austin, has proposed that dark matter wasn’t created in the Big Bang along with all other matter, but rather in a second Big Bang some weeks later. Freese, who was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences and serves as director of the Weinberg […]
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The universe has a dark side—it’s filled with dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the unseen mass floating around galaxies, which physicists have searched for using giant vats of ice, particle colliders, and other sophisticated techniques. But what about dark matter’s stranger sibling, dark energy?
Physicists are checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores, or even lodges in rocks.
WIMPS may be down, but they’re not out. A nearly 4-ton tank of xenon will start a two-year run in March at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. And a team in South Korea, the Cosine-100 collaboration, seeks to check a controversial claim from another Gran Sasso experiment called DAMA. In that experiment, an […]
Katherine Freese is a theoretical physicist and her area of focus is dark matter. Yes, just like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. She is currently a professor at The University of Texas, Austin. She was one of the first women to earn a BA in Physics from Princeton University. She also has an MA […]
The Longhorns being honored during this special Tower lighting include: Katherine Freese – Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Astrophysicist Katherine Freese, professor at the Department of Physics, Stockholm University, and at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
