You saw remnants of Big Bang as TV static happened, and you didn’t even know
Do you remember the white noise that came on television channels when no station was available? It apparently…
Dark matter and neutrinos are linked and interact with each other
A quiet shift in the numbers behind the universe’s growth is pushing scientists toward a bold possibility. Two…
Webb Discovers Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen
New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy with sweeping gaseous ‘tentacles’ in a…
Rather Than Expanding Forever, The Universe May Be Doomed to “Crunch” in 20 Billion Years
Illustration by ZME Science. We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a…
ATLAS maps the top quark–Higgs boson interaction with multileptons
One of the central questions in particle physics is how fundamental particles acquire mass. The top quark, as…
Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino May Signal First Glimpse of Primordial Black Hole Explosion
Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst argue that an ultra-high-energy neutrino detected by the KM3NeT experiment could…
New gravitational wave detection tests Einstein’s theory of gravity
On January 14, 2025, the LIGO detectors recorded the loudest gravitational-wave (GW) signal to date, GW250114_082203, nicknamed GW250114,…
Astronomers may have Found a First-Generation Galaxy Surprisingly Late in the Universe
Researchers from Tsinghua University have recently discovered a “living fossil”. It’s a cosmic relic of a galaxy that’s…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Unravels Mysteries of the Dark Universe
The Bullet Cluster is made up of two galaxy clusters that are colliding, one moving through the other,…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Physicists Challenge Long-Held Assumptions about Nature of Dark Matter
Dark matter may not have been ‘cold’ in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as long believed;…