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Join us at the annual Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics! From Einstein's prediction to black holes and neutron stars—welcome to the era of gravitational wave astronomy! Gabriela González (LSU) shares how space-time ripples reshape our universe.

Meet Carolyn B. Parker! A U-M graduate, scientist, and mathematician who helped to uncover the frightening power of radiation.

Get Involved in the Physics Community! Take a look at our organizations. They offer a place for students involved in physics to get to know and support one another.

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How an in-between quantum state could boost future technologies

New work by University of Michigan theorists Kai Sun and colleagues describes a physical phenomenon that could open new doors for things like quantum computers. U-M research fellow Kai Zhang and graduate student Chang Shu also contributed to the study.

Dark energy-filled black holes plus DESI data give neutrino masses that make sense

U-M's Greg Tarlé, Uendert Andrade and team helped develop a physical model based on black holes turning matter into dark energy, offering a cure to hiccups in our understanding of the universe, including the mass of ghost-like particles called neutrinos

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