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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 or at the Münchner Volkshochschule.

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.

Shedding light on dark matter with MADMAX

Café & Kosmos on May 6, 2025

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…

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The germanium detectors of the LEGEND experiment (Photo: Michael Willers)

Antimatter mystery in the universe: Will the neutrino lead us on the right track?

Café & Kosmos on 8 April 2025

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,…

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Image of the universe from the “eRosita” space telescope (Photo: MPE/IKI)

eROSITA: Seven X-ray eyes explore the universe

Café & Kosmos on 11 February 2025

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…

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