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December 23, 2024
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Dec. 19, 2024 Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220. They say these regions could be the key to making the centres of ...
Dec. 20, 2024 One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the past 100 years, physicists have generally assumed that the cosmos is ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for the winter, ...
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Dec. 11, 2024 Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...
Dec. 9, 2024 New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe -- not a flaw in telescope measurements -- may be behind the decade-long mystery of why the universe is ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Physicists have outlined the next 10 years of global research into the behavior of neutrinos, particles so tiny that they pass through virtually everything by the trillions every second at nearly the ...
Dec. 5, 2024 Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy ...
Dec. 4, 2024 Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and ...
Nov. 26, 2024 Researchers have made a record-breaking astrophysical discovery while simultaneously uncovering a possible explanation for the rare and extreme astrophysical event known as long-period radio ...
Nov. 18, 2024 Recent research unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark ...
Nov. 25, 2024 An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever ...
Nov. 21, 2024 A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one travelling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth's most powerful telescopes. ...
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Nov. 21, 2024 Axions are the most likely candidate for enigmatic dark matter that dominates the universe. Astrophysicists are searching for evidence of high-mass axions produced during supernovae. Scientists ...
Nov. 20, 2024 Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history. Their observations line up with what Einstein's ...
Nov. 19, 2024 Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars -- 'dead' remnants and 'living' stars -- in young star clusters. This breakthrough offers new ...
Nov. 13, 2024 Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was ...
Nov. 12, 2024 The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...
Nov. 12, 2024 The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...
Nov. 11, 2024 Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...
Nov. 7, 2024 Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, ...
Nov. 6, 2024 Gamma radiation can convert methane into a wide variety of products at room temperature, including hydrocarbons, oxygen-containing molecules, and amino acids, reports a research team. This type of ...
Nov. 6, 2024 Researchers have uncovered where FRBs are more likely to occur in the universe -- massive star-forming galaxies rather than low - mass ...
Nov. 4, 2024 The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...
Nov. 4, 2024 Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the ...
Oct. 30, 2024 New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...
Oct. 30, 2024 Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black ...
Oct. 30, 2024 It would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare, a new study ...
Oct. 17, 2024 Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed ...
Oct. 11, 2024 Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big ...
Oct. 10, 2024 When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher has ...
Oct. 7, 2024 Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe ...
Oct. 7, 2024 Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ...
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- A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in Our Universe and Beyond
- Astronomers' Theory of How Galaxies Formed May Be Upended
Monday, November 11, 2024
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- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe
- Evidence Mounts for Dark Energy from Black Holes
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
Thursday, October 17, 2024
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Monday, October 7, 2024
- Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy Found
- Influence of a Black Hole's Spin: First Evidence of Precession in Ultraluminous Accretion Disks
- Winds of Change: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Elusive Details in Young Star Systems
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- A Wobble from Mars Could Be Sign of Dark Matter
- More Black Holes Than Expected in the Early Universe
Monday, September 16, 2024
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- Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology's Two Biggest Puzzles
- Huge Gamma-Ray Burst Collection 'rivals 250-Year-Old Messier Catalog'
Monday, September 9, 2024
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- First Low Frequency Search for Alien Technology in Distant Galaxies
- Astrophysicists Use AI to Precisely Calculate Universe's 'settings'
- Early Galaxies Were Not Too Big for Their Britches After All
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- JWST Unveils Stunning Ejecta and CO Structures in Cassiopeia A's Young Supernova
- Cosmic Wrestling Match
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb's Second Anniversary
- How the 'heart and Lungs' Of a Galaxy Extend Its Life
Friday, June 28, 2024
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- Scientists Develop 3D Printed Vacuum System That Aims to Trap Dark Matter
- Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
Thursday, June 13, 2024
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- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
- Scientists Spot More Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe
- Origins of Fast Radio Bursts Come Into Focus Through Polarized Light
Monday, June 10, 2024
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- Researchers Upend Theory About the Formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
- Exotic Black Holes Could Be a Byproduct of Dark Matter
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
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- Medium and Mighty: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Can Survive in Globular Clusters
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
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- Birth of Universe's Earliest Galaxies Observed for First Time
- First Pictures from Euclid Satellite Reveal Billions of Orphan Stars
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- Venus Has Almost No Water: A New Study May Reveal Why
- Astronomers Observe Elusive Stellar Light Surrounding Ancient Quasars
- Hubble Views a Galaxy With a Voracious Black Hole
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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- Astronomers' Simulations Support Dark Matter Theory
- Gemini South Reveals Origin of Unexpected Differences in Giant Binary Stars
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- Physicists Solve Puzzle About Ancient Galaxy Found by Webb Telescope
- Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst of All Time Came from the Collapse of a Massive Star