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On April 28 and 29, 2025 a meeting of the German particle physics community will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. The workshop is part of the decision-making process for the long-term European strategy in particle physics. The…

The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) proudly congratulates the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN on receiving the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Scientists from the institute are among the thousands of researchers worldwide honored with…

Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. We can measure exactly how it attracts normal, visible matter, but still we have no idea what it is made of. Black holes? New types of particles? Researchers in the MADMAX collaboration…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most luminous and powerful sources in the universe. They are located in the center of galaxies and emit vast amounts of radiation. This often exceeds the total light output of all the stars in a galaxy.…

In the Universe, there should be as much matter as antimatter. As soon as particles and antiparticles collide, they annihilate each other and what remains is energy. However, since we obviously live in a Universe with matter - there are stars,…

A team of scientists has found the largest superstructure ever reliably characterised in the Universe. The discovery was made while mapping the nearby Universe using galaxy clusters detected by the ROSAT X-ray satellite's survey of the sky. With a…

The eROSITA satellite observes the entire sky in the X-ray range. Developed and built at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 13, 2019, and has carried out a…

Cells are the smallest units that we can undoubtedly recognise as alive. The membrane, a complex mixture of lipids and proteins, plays a central role in this because it separates the inside of the cell from the outside world. To form membranes, all…