What Happens When Light Goes Boom? Part 1: The Scientist Who Stared at a Glow
I want you to imagine a scene. It’s the red carpet. It’s the night of the Oscars, or…
Two supermassive black holes are now heading for a Universe-shaking collision
Astronomers have spotted what appears to be two supermassive black holes locked in a death spiral at the…
DESI Finishes Observations for Largest 3D Map of Universe
Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – In pursuit of understanding the role dark energy plays in complex physics, researchers have…
“Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own
University of Amsterdam researchers have unveiled a new type of human-made ‘metamaterials’ that can learn, change shape, and…
Shattering Einstein’s block universe rescues the flow of time
Einstein’s theory of relativity appears to drain time of its most familiar feature: its flow. If spacetime is…
Scientists Figured Out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding, But the Answer Is Troubling
You probably heard that the universe is constantly expanding. There’s a bit of an update to that: it’s…
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of…
Universe’s expansion gap is becoming harder and harder to explain
A new analysis has found that the local Universe is expanding faster than predicted from the early Universe,…
Dark matter is invisible, but it’s the most common stuff in the Universe. These scientists just made a detailed map of it
Dark matter makes up 27% of all matter in the Universe. So why is it so hard to…
DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe – Berkeley Lab News Center
DESI has now measured cosmological data for six times as many galaxies and quasars as all previous measurements…
This supermassive black hole is located in an unusual part of its galaxy
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a spiral galaxy. With the help of the James Webb Space…
The Incredible Shrinking Neutrino. – Universe Today
They pass through you at a rate of around a hundred trillion every second, that’s about 12 quadrillion…