Armenian physicist Levon Pogosian—a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a staff member from abroad at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia—has been awarded the top  Buchalter Cosmology Prize for 2021.

Pogosian and his co-worker were awarded the first prize for their new research on relieving the Hubble tension with primordial magnetic fields, according to the Byurakan observatory.

The Buchalter Cosmology Prize is an annual prize that seeks to stimulate ground-breaking theoretical, observational, or experimental work in cosmology that has the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in our understanding. It was created to support the development of new theories, observations, or methods, that can help illuminate the puzzle of cosmic expansion from first principles.