This Telescope’s Final Data Release Just Killed 30 Cosmological Theories
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile spent nearly two decades studying how the universe began, what it’s…
At 50 million-light-years long, scientists discover one of the universe’s largest structures
Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though,…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
Astronomers discover a galaxy making stars 180x faster than the Milky Way
The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied…
Astronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
New Research Throws the Ultimate Fate of the Universe Into Question
After the Big Bang, our universe began to expand at an exponential rate, an acceleration scientists have long…
Cosmic discovery reveals how mysterious buckyballs form in deep space
Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar…
New quantum sensors aim to detect hidden forces behind dark matter
For decades, you have heard scientists say that most of the universe is missing. They are not being…
New high-res black hole images challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity
A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…
Comparing the motion of dark matter and standard model particles on cosmological scales
Bertone, G. & Hooper, D. History of dark matter. Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 045002 (2018). Article ADS CAS …