UoP Cosmology

06/11/2025

📢 Event Announcement

We're thrilled to share that on Monday 10 November 2025 (6pm) at the University of Portsmouth we’re hosting an exciting talk titled: “The 2025 Nobel Prize – Quantum Tunnelling and Macroscopic Quantized Circuits”.

Join us as Professor Jordan (Kennedy Chair in Physics, Chapman University) steps through:
- The foundational physics of superconducting circuits and quantum tunnelling
- How those quantum phenomena are driving today’s quantum sensing, measurement and computing technologies.

This event is free and open to anyone with an interest in the frontiers of physics and quantum technology. Whether you’re in academia, industry, or just curious about how fundamental discoveries are transforming computing and instrumentation, this is for you.

🔗 Register now and don’t miss your chance to connect, learn and explore the quantum future: https://shorturl.at/OnYOZ

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

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11/04/2025

Is the Standard Model of Cosmology Wrong?

Portsmouth's Dr Or Graur is interviewed on the Event Horizon YouTube channel about this topic!

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpu0MSYbPE

The Vera Rubin Observatory is about to revolutionize astronomy by detecting up to 10,000 supernovae every night—an unprecedented flood of cosmic data. Astron...

31/01/2025

Our annual event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is happening next Wednesday 5th February.

It always a great night, we hope to see you there! The last few (free!) tickets are available here:

If you do not receive your confirmation email or tickets, please check your junk/spam folders, as at times emails can be automatically sent here.

03/10/2024

There's still time to grab a ticket for our first World Space Week event tomorrow evening!

Join space experts from the ICG and our regional partners at our Space for our Future panel discussion to discover how space impacts our everyday lives and what the space industry might look like one day. Featuring ICG's Dr Gbenga Olumodimu alongside Dr Louise Butt (Space South Central) and Dr Lucy King (In-Space Missions) and hosted by ICG's Dr Jen Gupta (as seen on Secrets of our Universe with Tim Peake and BBC Radio 4's Stranger Than Sci-Fi). Get your free tickets at the link below:

Discover how space impacts our everyday lives and what the space industry might look like in the future. A World Space Week 2024 event.

19/09/2024

World Space Week is coming at the beginning of October (4th - 12th), and we have many events happening in Portsmouth to celebrate!

Check them all out here:

Join us this October as we celebrate World Space Week 2024 in Portsmouth and discover more about the wealth of space activity taking place in our region.

13/05/2024

Very happy for my coauthored essay with PhD student Molly Burkmar to be among those receiving a "Honourable Mention" in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition 2024. Ça va sans dire.. congratulations to the winners! https://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/announcement?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3UMvIJePKUh6_RtxhQujN2r5S9jk_GZ3V6MaKajgfziUpyn_Vt0V7IHpQ_aem_AYetAknY7r2ThXQkdGksAx4NmhIYdO0d1vmuTXRBwAg6-2ziyfmmxNg7spQsTlIP30rr3zrPP6OEg_fsZDr_0Xl0

Gravity Research Foundation's essay competition winners for this year!

21/12/2023

🔭 Stargazing at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is back in Action Stations and HMS Warrior on Wednesday 31 January 2024 from 6pm to 9pm.

🪐 Join astrophysicists and cosmologists from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, navigation experts from the National Museum of the Royal Navy, amateur astronomers from Hampshire Astronomical Group, space engineers from Airbus Defence and Space, the Dark Skies team from the South Downs National Park, and more at this free event that explores navigation through space and time.

🌟 During the evening you will have the opportunity to take a look through a telescope, learn how sailors navigate by the stars, and find out more about our Universe. Short talks will be given throughout the night on topics within stargazing, cosmology and space. There will be a range of activities to suit all ages, with plenty to do and see whether it’s clear or cloudy.

🎟️ Entry is guaranteed from 6 – 7.30pm for 6pm entry tickets and from 7.30 – 8.30pm for 7.30pm entry tickets; entry outside of these times will be at the event organiser’s discretion. Once you are inside the event you are welcome to stay until it ends at 9pm. In previous years attendees have typically spent around 1.5 hours at the event.

Entry to this event is free but requires a pre-booked ticket.

Book your ticket here - https://bit.ly/4at3bIS

📷 - University of Portsmouth

29/06/2023

Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The cause? Probably supermassive black hole collisions, but more exotic options can’t be ruled out.

02/05/2023

30/04/2023

Cool article written by former ICG student

Physicists believe most of the matter in the Universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can see.