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• We Have the Universe at Home: ITMO Scientists Suggest Way to Model a Galaxy in a Lab

  Researchers from ITMO University have found a way to create a model galaxy in lab conditions, all by reproducing its dynamics with a different physical system – trapped atomic ions. Compared to existing astrophysical models that provide approximated results, this approach makes it possible to conduct experimental studies in a lab. It also offers a more precise answer as to why and how the movement of stars changes relative to a galaxy’s center and how the galaxy can transform. The results of the study have been published in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

  22.12.2025

• In a Nutshell: Black Holes and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

  This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics have just been announced. This year, the award went to astrophysicists who made a significant contribution to the study of black holes. ITMO.NEWS and Anastasia Topchieva, junior research associate at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explain what the scientists studied and what their research means. 

  07.10.2020

• We Were Born In the Stars: An Astrophysicist’s Lecture at ITMO

  Alexander Ivanchik, an astrophysicist with a PhD in Physics and Mathematics and a researcher at the Ioffe Institute, gave a lecture on the Open Day of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering. Read on to learn about the history of cosmology and the stories of Nobel Prize Laureates who studied space. 

  06.12.2019