Earliest fast radio burst from just 3 billion years after big bang detected
Long before our solar system formed, a millisecond flash of light with a huge amount of energy erupted…
Biggest Supernova Dataset Yet Challenges Dark Energy Theory
Type Ia supernovae are powerful stellar explosions that occur when a white dwarf is pushed into a thermonuclear…
Scientists Find a Universal Rule for Black Hole Jets
Black holes of all sizes seem to follow the same playbook: when matter falls in, jets blast out.…
Potential dark matter detection gives scientists hope for study
Potential dark matter detection sparks hope in search for elusive substance Dark matter is invisible and makes up…
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,…
Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It.
The driving force behind our universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this…
Have we got dark energy wrong? NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may help us find out
In the late 90s, a space telescope helped flip our understanding of the universe on its head. Data…
Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe’s Origins
In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of…
From galaxies to knees | Particle
Connor Bottrell didn’t look through a telescope until he was an adult, which makes his current job all…
NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescope
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most…
Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
ATLAS breaks its own record with new search for double-Higgs production
Producing two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision is among the rarest processes at the LHC. Yet…