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Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles. Emeritus Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of Oxford comments in The Conversation.

The Department of Physics is delighted to welcome two Royal Society University Research Fellows: Dr Nick Bultinck and Dr James Matthews.

The Department of Physics and Mathematical Institute will benefit from STFC's £20 million investment in theoretical physics.

Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund.

Dr Sebastian von Hausegger and Professor Subir Sarkar and collaborators have revisited the standard cosmological model

The world’s largest and most sensitive dark matter experiment has come to life and is delivering results, moving a step closer to offering clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe.

An international team of researchers including Dr Sebastian von Hausegger, used insights from physics, mathematics, and computer science to create a novel method that traces the movement of galaxies back in time.

Professor Pedro Gil Ferreira has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Gerald Whitrow Lecture in Astronomy.

The XENON/DARWIN and LUX-ZEPLIN collaborations have now joined forces to work together on the design, construction, and operation of a new, single, multi-tonne scale xenon observatory to explore dark matter.

An international team of scientists including astronomers from the University of Oxford have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the universe.

'Glashow resonance' event observed in IceCube Neutrino Observatory.