07/27/2023 The CRESST experiment has specialized in the search for light dark matter particles, lighter than 1 Gigaelectronvolts (1 GeV). In order to reliably measure the tiny energy released by these particles in the detectors, those must be very precisely tuned. The scientists involved in CRESST are now successfully exploiting a new calibration method for this purpose.

07/03/2023 The ESA space telescope Euclid, with significant contributions by ORIGINS scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, was launched into space today, 1 July 2023 at 17:12 CEST on a Falcon 9 rocket by the US space company SpaceX. Once it arrives at its destination, the Lagrange Point 2 (L2) of Earth-Sun system, it will observe over a third of the entire sky for at least six years, mapping the spatial distribution of billions of galaxies and measuring their properties. Analysing this data, the six German institutes in the…

06/29/2023 For the first time, the scientists of the international IceCube Collaboration have succeeded in detecting neutrinos from the Milky Way. The analysis of ten years of observation data using machine learning methods led to the success for which ORIGINS scientist Elisa Resconi's group at the Technical University of Munich provided important preliminary work. In the next step, the researchers strive to understand from which celestial objects the observed high-energy neutrinos come.

06/29/2023 „Universe on Tour“ stoppt vom 05. bis 09. Juli 2023 in München. Im Rahmen der bundesweiten Roadshow im Wissenschaftsjahr 2023 – Unser Universum präsentieren das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und Münchner Forschungsinstitute in einem 75 Quadratmeter großen mobilen Planetarium aktuelle Themen im Bereich Astronomie und Astrophysik. Mit dabei: der Exzellenzcluster ORIGINS, die Universitäts-Sternwarte München (LMU), die Max-Planck-Institute für Physik, für extraterrestrische Physik und für Astrophysik, die Europäische Südsternwarte ESO und die Volkssternwarte…

05/31/2023 The astrophysicist and ORIGINS scientist Frank Eisenhauer builds sophisticated instruments for the world’s largest telescopes and uses them to explore black holes and distant galaxies with unprecedented precision.

05/22/2023 Researchers at the ORIGINS Cluster from statistical and biological physics have constructed a new cell-like transport system and thus made important progress on the way to the artificial cell.

05/21/2023 Researchers of the ORIGINS Cluster have observed the X-ray emission of the most luminous quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history. Significant changes in the quasar’s emission give a new perspective on the inner workings of quasars and how they interact with their environment. The study was led by Dr Elias Kammoun, a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP), and Zsofi Igo, an ORIGINS PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE).

05/14/2023 Measurements show that the universe is expanding faster and faster. Where this accelerated expansion comes from, however, is a mystery. A first investigation of the dark energy with the X-ray telescope eROSITA by ORIGINS scientists now provides indications that this is evenly distributed in space and time.

05/09/2023 From May 5th to May 7th, 2023 he Munich Science Days offered visitors exciting insights into the world of research at FORSCHA. ORIGINS was there and inspired with findings from astrophysics, particle physics and biophysics.

04/12/2023 For the fifth time, the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS awards two outstanding dissertations in the field of astro-, nuclear and particle physics as well as biophysics. Interdisciplinary thesis topics addressing one of the important milestones of the cluster and connecting various research disciplines will be preferred. The application deadline is 15 July 2023.