#Astronomietag2026

Typisches Aprilwetter: Erst dicht bewölkt und ziemlich unbeständig 🌧️
Doch am Ende hat die Sonne sich noch gezeigt – und wir konnten sogar mit den Teleskopen beobachten 🔭
Dazu gab es einige spannende Stationen und gut gefüllte Vorträge – danke fürs Vorbeikommen!❤️

#AstronomyDay2026 #Astronomietag #Astronomy #Astrophysics #MPIfR #RadioAstronomy #Stargazing #Telescope #ScienceOutreach #OpenDay #ScienceCommunication

I had the pleasure to chat with Curt Jaimungal about my research in his Theories of Everything Podcast.

Here's the (over two hours long) result:
A physicist just told me that 85% of the universe’s “missing mass” may partly be a modeling artifact...

Jenny Wagner is someone I didn’t expect to meet but I’m glad I did. She proves theorems about what the data can’t tell you. Then she shows where the standard model of cosmology silently fills gaps with assumptions. She calls it “CSI cosmology”: start from the evidence, not from the theory you like. It’s super interesting.

What’s even more astounding is the cross‑disciplinary impact of this sort of approach. It may have drastic impact in particle physics, and even in cancer research. This goes beyond AI / traditional machine learning (she has a PhD in machine learning actually).

In fact, a quantum chemistry thesis she read cracked a 30‑year‑old degeneracy problem in gravitational lensing that cosmologists couldn’t solve staying inside cosmology.

It's available for everybody to see tonight!

https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-inverse-problem-of-dark-matter

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