This dark energy tool just created the most comprehensive 3D map of our universe ever: ‘A major paradigm shift’
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year mission to build the largest 3D map of…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ | Science
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering…
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…
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…
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…
Magnetism Frozen in Time. – Universe Today
Stars are not the serene, unchanging beacons they appear to be. Over billions of years they swell, convulse,…
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…
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,…