Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark matter clusters, new ‘echo map’ technique suggests
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Physicists use thorium-229 to power the world’s first working nuclear clock
A clock built from thorium-229 has crossed an important line, from a long-discussed concept to a working device.…
Quantum sensor neutralizes laser noise for dark matter and gravitational wave detection
Finding out what the universe is actually made of remains one of the ultimate frontiers in modern physics.…
A strange glow in the heart of the Milky Way may be dark matter
A faint glow of gamma rays hangs over the center of the Milky Way, stretching across thousands of…
Scientists crack a 30-year-old mystery about how black holes form without a dying star |
Most people picture a black hole forming the same way: a massive star runs out of fuel, collapses…
Mysterious Cosmic Signal Could Be First Real Evidence of Primordial Black Holes
Artist’s illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology Scientists…
Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?
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ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
Characterizing galaxies at “cosmic noon” – Sciworthy
The universe is around 14 billion years old, but scientists theorize that no stars formed for the first…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…