Astronomers Matched van Gogh’s Starry Night to a Real Sky—and a Weirdly Specific Date
For a surprisingly long time, scientists have debated whether Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night was his fantasy,…
Scientists Simulated the Universe – And Discovered the Milky Way May Be One of the Best Places for Life
Galaxy evolution in an EAGLE simulation. Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers…
Astronomers Discover a “Universal” Trigger for Black Hole Jets
Artist’s impression of a black hole surrounded by glowing stellar debris, with material heating up as it spirals…
Meet Julian Shapiro, the 18-year-old New Yorker who discovered three unusual dwarf galaxies while still in high school, became sole author of an Astrophysical Journal paper and won a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship
The galaxies, now catalogued as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, II and III, share an unusual combination of characteristics.…
Einstein Probe Discovers a Secret Phase of Neutron Star Collisions
Artist’s impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and HXMT detected…
NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class
NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission…
Scientists Say the Universe Isn’t Slowing Down After All
The universe is still speeding up, scientists say, keeping dark energy and its mysterious role in cosmic expansion…
Les Neutrinos: The Ghosts of the Sun, The Great Neutrino Mystery
Dear readers, faithful companions of the lantern and the basketball, Before we speak of the stars, allow me…
This Photon Survived an ‘Impossible’ Journey to Earth. To Explain it, Physicists Had to Break Einstein
In 2022, astronomers detected an absurdly bright and long-lasting gamma ray burst, GRB 221009A—nicknamed “BOAT,” for “Brightest of…
Largest-Ever Physics Survey Raises New Doubts About Our Model of the Universe
A global survey of physicists reveals strikingly little consensus on some of the deepest questions in modern physics,…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes
When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive…