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Scientists could turn to black holes to complement facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe’s deepest secrets, a new study by Oxford researchers suggests.

Professor Shivaji Sondhi has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the Wykeham Professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University.

Dr Robert J Ewart has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award; he is the seventh winner from the University of Oxford in recent years.

Researchers have unveiled an innovative experimental approach using an X ray free electron laser (XFEL) to probe for axions – elusive particles that may make up dark matter.

The Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division at the University of Oxford is delighted to announce the establishment of the Denys Firth Scholarship in Theoretical Physics.

Professor Binney awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal for his lifetime achievements in the study of the structure and evolution of galaxies.

Professor Ard Louis is a theoretical physicist here at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics; he shares the story of oxDNA, the most successful and widely adopted coarse-grained model for DNA self-assembly.

DPhil student Jonathan Classen-Howes was awarded the Early Career Researcher Poster Prize at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group Meeting organised by IOP.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

Professor Julia Yeomans FRS has been awarded the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division’s Liquid Matter Prize 2024.

Together with professors Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason and Giulia Zanderighi, Professor Gavin Salam has been awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress of Basic Science.

Dr Yonadav Barry Ginat, Leverhulme-Peierls Fellow at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, has been awarded the International Astronomical Union’s PhD Prize for Division D