What explains a grand-design spiral galaxy only 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang |
The earliest stages of the universe are often envisioned as chaotic, filled with young galaxies that lacked order…
Transforming sensitivity to new physics with single-top-quark events
The top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, has captivated physicists since its discovery in the 1990s and…
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…
Astronomers Think They May Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars Glowing From the Dawn of Time
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars as they would have appeared after the Big Bang.…
Our universe may have been born inside a black hole, study finds
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes…
The most violent event in the universe could be visible from Earth in less than 10 years
The universe is a vast place in which many cosmic events occur regularly. And in less than ten…
Shining light on the Weak force: ATLAS observes WWγ production
The ATLAS Collaboration reports its first observation of WWγ production – a rare process involving the simultaneous production…
Astronomers spot black hole eating up to 3,000 Suns every year
Deep in the distant universe, astronomers have found a black hole that seems to be breaking the usual…
New Physics Model Challenges the Big Bang Story We Thought We Knew
A new study challenges the widely accepted idea that the universe began with a rapid expansion known as…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
JWST May Have Found the Universe’s First Pristine Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope may have uncovered one of the Universe’s first galaxies, AMORE6, almost devoid of…