Precise measurement of the absolute sky brightness at 60–350 MHz
GINAN receiver with advanced architecture The GINAN receiver implements a new architecture that dynamically self-calibrates for receiver noise…
A Universe Without Dark Energy? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmology
A new analysis argues that the standard cosmological model may be fundamentally unstable, raising questions about whether dark…
AI helps scientists model kilonova-producing neutron star mergers
Some of the universe’s heaviest elements are born in chaos, in matter flung outward when neutron stars collide…
New analysis reveals why Ganymede has a magnetic field when other moons do not
Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to…
Can Our Model of the Cosmos Work Without Dark Energy? New Research Says It Can
Dark energy has been a mysterious element of cosmological equation since it was proposed three decades ago, but…
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…
With a mass of about 50 billion times that of the Sun, this black hole is one of the largest ever discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a black hole in the universe. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang
For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the…
James Webb Telescope Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Cosmic Web in Stunning Detail
A slice through the COSMOS-Web cosmic-web map, showing galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history. The…
The universe is significantly older than previously thought, astronomers find
Galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope have been causing trouble for the standard story of cosmic…