Research Highlights1 October 2025|Research HighlightThe Extreme Corners of Quantum GravityPhoto: van Beest, Calderón-Infante, Mirfendereski, Valenzuela (2022)Combining Quantum Mechanics and gravity into one theory is the theoretical challenge of the twenty-first century. The "Swampland Programme" aims to...30 September 2025|Research Highlight"Polarization Pairs" bring clarityPhoto: Craig LawrieA new framework introduces so-called polarization pairs as a datum necessary to have well-defined quantum field theories that involve self-dual gauge...28 August 2025|Research HighlightCMS experiment measures the mass of the W boson from hadronsPhoto: CMS CollaborationHadrons are particles made of quarks and gluons, and hundreds of them are produced in each particle collision at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A...20 August 2025|Research HighlightA mysterious cloud near the Milky Way's black hole is being torn apartPhoto: Wasif ShaqilIn a recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have investigated a...9 July 2025|Research HighlightBeyond the backgroundPhoto: Anna Malin LemkeIn the summer of 2023, several pulsar timing array collaborations found the first evidence for the existence of a gravitational wave background, a...26 June 2025|Research HighlightGenerative machine learning tools for collider simulationPhoto: DESYDetectors at future colliders promise beautiful highly-granular images of particle collisions. To make use of this data, simulating a vast number of...28 May 2025|Research HighlightFlavour-Invariant Contributions to the Strong CP ProblemPhoto: Christoph GrojeanThe postulation of an axion poses an elegant solution to the strong CP problem of the Standard Model. The construction of such a solution could be...14 May 2025|Research HighlightMachine Learning Transforms Large Hadron Collider SimulationsPhoto: Valentina GuglielmiWhat do you do when you would like to play the newest computer game on your old computer, but the game is too demanding for your hardware? You own the...30 April 2025|QU Research HighlightsUsing the power behind Chat-GPT for physicsPhoto: Joschka BirkChat-GPT is great at coming up with birthday card greetings, summarizing complicated texts, or brainstorming ideas for the name of your new dog. But...4 April 2025|Research HighlightElectromagnetic Flashes from fast ejecta in Neutron Star CollisionsPhoto: Rosswog et al. (2025)In a recent study lead by Quantum Universe principal investigator Prof. Stephan Rosswog from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg, scientists...Show all news
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