http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/12/04/moore-foundation-bigboss/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/12/04/moore-foundation-bigboss/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:50:29 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33571 A $2.1 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics will fund revolutionary technologies that the proposed BigBOSS project will use to study dark energy with unprecedented precision. BigBOSS, based at Berkeley Lab, will probe the expansion history of the universe, says BCCP director Uros Seljak. professor of physics.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/12/04/moore-foundation-bigboss/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/explosion-of-galaxy-formation-lit-up-early-universe/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/explosion-of-galaxy-formation-lit-up-early-universe/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:30:54 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32782 The universe was dark until the first stars began to form, but the universe really lit up once massive hydrogen clouds began birthing galaxies of stars. A new study by postdocs Oliver Zahn and Christian Reichardt, using data from the South Pole Telescope, finds that this period, called the Epoch of Reionization, was later and more explosive than thought.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/04/explosion-of-galaxy-formation-lit-up-early-universe/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:15:23 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32403 The Simons Foundation of New York initiated a new program of Simons Investigators this year, awarding 21 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists $100,000 per year for 5-10 years, no strings attached. Theoretical astrophysicist Eliot Quataert was one of them.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/24/theoretical-astrophysicist-receives-500000-no-strings-attached/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/08/x-ray-telescope-to-focus-on-hottest-regions-of-black-holes-supernovas/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/08/x-ray-telescope-to-focus-on-hottest-regions-of-black-holes-supernovas/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:45:48 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=22514 NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiting X-ray satellite on Wednesday, June 13, that will open a new window on the universe, allowing scientists to probe the roiling edges of black holes, exploding stars and the smallest, most frequent flares on the sun. UC Berkeley scientists and engineers helped build the instruments, will operate the satellite, and will analyze the data from supernova explosions.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/08/x-ray-telescope-to-focus-on-hottest-regions-of-black-holes-supernovas/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/13/uc-berkeley-passes-management-of-allen-telescope-array-to-sri/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/13/uc-berkeley-passes-management-of-allen-telescope-array-to-sri/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:10:00 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27100 After operating the Hat Creek Radio Observatory for more than 50 years, and most recently partnering with the SETI Institute to build the Allen Telescope Array, UC Berkeley is handing over management to SRI International, which will operate the observatory for the U.S. Air Force. The telescope will track space debris and continue to search for signs of intelligent civilizations.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/13/uc-berkeley-passes-management-of-allen-telescope-array-to-sri/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/03/30/boss-first-results/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/03/30/boss-first-results/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:15:32 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27649 The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) has made the most accurate measurement yet of the distance scale of the universe during the era when dark energy turned on some 6 billion years ago. The precision measurements - the best of any galaxy survey, according to UC Berkeley astronomer Martin White - will allow exploration of the enigmatic nature of dark energy.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/03/30/boss-first-results/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/01/gruber-cosmology-prize-honors-dark-matter-astronomers/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/01/gruber-cosmology-prize-honors-dark-matter-astronomers/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:15:32 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=12329 UC Berkeley astronomer Marc Davis will share with three other astronomers the 2011 Cosmology Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, the foundation announced Wednesday.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/01/gruber-cosmology-prize-honors-dark-matter-astronomers/feed/ 0