news 2021

Cardiff University scientists are to lead a consortium hoping to track down one of the most mysterious materials in the Universe - dark matter. The £5m Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry (QI) collaboration will use state-of-the-art quantum technology to shed more light on the material which makes up roughly 27 per cent of the Universe but has yet to be directly detected.

Our astronomers have looked nine billion years into the past to find evidence that galaxy mergers in the early universe could shut down star formation and affect galaxy growth. Using a powerful Earth-based telescope they saw that a huge amount of star-forming gas was ejected into the universe by the coming together of two galaxies.