Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis
Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) concluded its first official survey. Over the past five years,…
Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…
NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula
This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured…
Mysterious ‘Red Dot’ Galaxies Could Have ‘Relic’ Black Holes Predating the Big Bang
What was going on before the Big Bang? (Anything interesting?) Well, one astrophysicist now proposes that the mysterious…
Over 150 mergers reveal three different black hole origin stories
For years, astronomers treated merging black holes as if they all came from the same cosmic assembly line.…
First Black Hole Ever Discovered 62 Years Ago Is Emitting Jets With Energy Of 10,000 Suns
The first black hole to be confirmed, Cygnus X-1, is blasting “dancing jets” into space with the force…
Not Even the Largest Cosmic Objects Can Escape Newton and Einstein, Study Finds
Gravity is so weird that it essentially forces cosmologists into subscribing to one of two equally radical conclusions:…
Gravity holds across cosmos, proving Newton and Einstein right
Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves…
‘Interstellar Glaciers’: NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped…
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…
Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe
Since March, scientists have been keeping their eyes peeled as the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) started chipping…
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…