Armenian Physicist Recognized as Winner of Buchalter Astronomy Prize

Armenian physicist Levon Poghosyan, a professor at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver and a foreign collaborator at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, has been awarded the Buchalter Astronomy Prize for 2021. The information is provided by the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory.

Poghosyan and his team won the first-place award for their new research on revealing Hubble tension through primordial magnetic fields. Hubble tension is one of the biggest enigmas in cosmology, relating to the apparent discrepancy in the Hubble constant, or how fast the Universe is expanding today, which is determined through various types of observations.

In their work, Poghosyan and his colleagues demonstrated how considering the magnetic fields of the early Universe can help resolve this discrepancy.

The Buchalter Astronomy Prize was established in 2014. It is awarded for “breakthrough theoretical, observational, or experimental work in astronomy that can contribute to expanding our understanding of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Universe.”