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Café & Kosmos

Café & Kosmos - Talk with the scientists: The event series Café & Kosmos is engaged with current research questions "out of the universe," including the Big Bang, string theory, dark energy, dark matter, and many other topics.

These discussion rounds take place once per month, normally on a Tuesday evening at the Muffatwerk.

The organizers of Café & Kosmos are research institutions in Munich and Garching: the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, the Max Planck Institute for Physics, the MPI for Astrophysics,  the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, and the SFB 1258 (Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Messengers) at the Technical University of Munich.

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Stardust in the antarctic snow

Café & Kosmos on 1 October 2019

Sterne beenden ihr Dasein in gewaltigen Explosionen. Was von ihnen übrig bleibt, verbreitet sich im Weltall. Auf diese Weise kann Sternstaub auch auf die Erde rieseln. Nun haben Forscher Spuren einer Sternexplosion im Schnee der Antarktis entdeckt.…

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Fundamental forces and new particles: what we will discover in the next few years

Café & Kosmos on 10 September 2019

Was sind die fundamentalen Bausteine der Natur und was hält sie zusammen? Die Standardtheorie der Elementarteilchenphysik erklärt das Verhalten der bekannten Materie - allerdings macht sie nur fünf Prozent der Masse des Universums aus. Woraus besteht…

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The black hole in the center of galaxy M87 (Image: Event Horizon Telescope)

Café & Kosmos on July 30, 2019: Black holes - remote and near

Café & Kosmos on July 30, 2019

Recently the Event Horizon Telescope published the first image of a black hole - or, to put it more precisey, of the center of the galaxy M87. Even if we cannot observe objects like this directly (actually the image shows the shadow of a black hole,…

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