Les Neutrinos: The Ghosts of the Sun, The Great Neutrino Mystery
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, Before we speak of the stars, allow me…
Largest-Ever Physics Survey Raises New Doubts About Our Model of the Universe
A global survey of physicists reveals strikingly little consensus on some of the deepest questions in modern physics,…
After years of silence, a pulsar suddenly changes its spin three times
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing a neutron star and planets. After studying a young pulsar…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes
When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…
The universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holes
Astronomers estimate that about 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes exist within the observable universe, a number written as…
Powerhouse Parramatta home to new observatory with telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies
More than two centuries after a famed observatory was built in Parramatta, a new one has been constructed…
A Star’s Spin Could Solve a Longstanding Black Hole Mystery
Rapid stellar rotation may explain why some stars produce progressively fainter flares during repeated close encounters with supermassive…
Scientists narrow the search for dark matter using new galaxy simulations
Stellar streams have long been treated as relatively smooth structures whose gaps, kinks and spurs could reveal invisible…
From galaxies to knees | Particle
Connor Bottrell didn’t look through a telescope until he was an adult, which makes his current job all…
‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe
Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity appearing about…
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Best Evidence for Dark Matter Yet
Dark matter, the elusive, invisible stuff that astronomers say constitutes roughly 85% of the universe’s mass, doesn’t interact…