Physics & Astronomy

The second year to be fully in person, students from all over the country are at The University of New Mexico for 10 weeks as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Physics and Astronomy...

New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today – the Hubble constant problem. The Hubble constant is the rate of expansion of...

An international collaboration of more than 300 researchers from 80 institutes from around the world collaborated to produce the first image of a supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy that provides overwhelming evidence the...

New Mexico’s longstanding history of being on the forefront of quantum computing has now brought together some of the greatest leaders in the field to propel us into the Second Quantum Revolution. Quantum New Mexico (QNM), an initiative between The...

The Quantum Systems Accelerator has been catalyzing the quantum information science (QIS) ecosystem since its foundation in 2020 as a National QIS Research Center. In recognition of the new generation of scientists and engineers preparing to harness the...

The UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy is preparing for its first in-person Physics Day in two years. UNM Physics Day 2022 will be held on Saturday, April 16 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will feature a variety of events including poster presentations,...

The UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy hosts its Spring Lecture Demonstration Show on Wednesday, March 30, from 7-8 p.m., in Regener Hall Auditorium (Room 103). The event is free and open to the general public. Local high school teachers and...

University of New Mexico climatologist David Gutzler presents a talk as part of a Physics and Astronomy Colloquium on the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Volume 2, assessing impacts of climate change and strategies for...

A University of New Mexico student who is pursuing a double major in Physics and Astronomy, and Biology has now been accepted into the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) summer research program on complexity. “I was both surprised and proud to learn that the...

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named to a diverse group of 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy as recipients of its 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards. The...