"A Puzzle Solved: The World Is Flat"

Special LMU Astrophysics Colloquium

  • Date: Nov 19, 2025
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Simon White (MPA)
  • Location: LMU Main Building, Große Aula, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Munich
  • Room: Große Aula
  • Host: Joe Mohr
  • Contact: Joseph.Mohr@Physik.LMU.DE
"A Puzzle Solved: The World Is Flat"
Annual special edition of the LMU Astrophysics Colloquium addressing a longstanding cosmology problem in the Local Group.

Reports a resolution to the >40-year discrepancy between the Local Group mass lower limit inferred from the Milky Way–Andromeda dynamics (Kahn & Woltjer 1959) and the upper limit implied by the nearly unperturbed Hubble expansion in the surrounding region (Sandage 1986), followed by a question-and-answer session.

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