Why the Largest-Ever Catalog of Supernovae Could Change How We Study Them A new catalog allows astronomers to trace the evolution of a star's death. Inverse · Apr 11, 2023
Astronomers discover four oldest galaxies born 500million years AFTER the Big Bang Astronomers have spotted four of the oldest galaxies ever discovered which are believed to date back to the earliest days of the known universe, created after just 300million years Daily Mirror · Apr 7, 2023
A 'next-generation' gamma-ray observatory is underway to probe the extreme Universe Long gone are the days when astronomers only studied the skies with simple optical telescopes. Today, unveiling the mysteries of the Universe involves ever-larger and more complex facilities that detect things like gravitational waves and different forms of electromagnetic radiation – the spectrum of energy that includes visible light and… The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023
Scientists discover black hole nearly 33 billion times bigger than the Sun Scientists from Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever detected in the universe, and it’s 32.7 billion times bigger than the Sun. The Week · Mar 29, 2023
Blast of radiation mysteriously redirected towards Earth by another galaxy Blazars are very high energy objects and are considered to be one of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe Wales Online · Mar 22, 2023
NASA Uncovers a Massive Galactic Mystery 9 Billion Light-Years from Earth X-ray and optical telescopes suggest that an ancient galaxy gobbled up its neighbors and likely lives alone in the distant Universe. Inverse · Mar 9, 2023
Humans are still hunting for aliens. Here's how astronomers are looking for life beyond Earth We have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea of “aliens” is seen in the satiric work of Assyrian writer Lucian of Samosata dated to 200 AD. The Conversation · Mar 3, 2023
Supermassive black hole lurking at edge of universe one of biggest ever detected The supermassive black hole contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust and lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and dates back over 13 billion years Daily Mirror · Feb 24, 2023
“I Almost Spit Out My Coffee”: A New JWST Early Universe Discovery Has Astronomers Giddy New results show fully formed galaxies in the early Universe that could rewrite what we know about galaxies and black holes. Inverse · Feb 22, 2023
‘We just discovered the impossible': how giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early Universe “Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Conversation · Feb 22, 2023
Alien Civilizations Could Use Black Holes as Massive Quantum Computers If life is common in our Universe, and we have every reason to suspect it is, why do we not see evidence of it everywhere? Black holes may hold an answer. Inverse · Feb 19, 2023
Antimatter: how the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance is made Scientists at CERN are making one of the most explosive substances known to humans. Unravelling its secrets could help us understand how the Universe exists. ABC News · Feb 18, 2023
Art lovers in a spin over spiral artworks signposting wider universe The work Whorled (Here After Here After Here) is meant to echo road signs from throughout the world as well as places in the universe. The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2023
The largest structures in the Universe are still glowing with the shock of their creation On the largest scales, the Universe is ordered into a web-like pattern: galaxies are pulled together into clusters, which are connected by filaments and separated by voids. These clusters and filaments contain dark matter, as well as regular matter like gas and galaxies. The Conversation · Feb 15, 2023
Inverse · Feb 6, 2023 How the Webb Telescope is Rewriting What We Know About the Early Universe, One Galaxy at a Time Somehow, galaxies came together to kickstart the modern Universe. Astronomers have found surprises as they study 'Cosmic Dawn' with the Webb Space Telescope.
Inverse · Feb 5, 2023 60 Years Ago, Astronomers Cracked the Mystery of the Brightest Objects in the Universe No one was sure what quasars were and how they connected to galaxies. Then it all changed.
Inverse · Feb 4, 2023 Astronomers May Be on the Cusp of a “Potentially Revolutionary” Breakthrough A 3D map of most of the luminous matter in the universe is the goal for the next 50 years or more.
Inverse · Feb 4, 2023 The Milky Way Galaxy May Be a Unique Heavyweight in One Weird Way Illustris TNG simulation shows that the Milky Way is special, all thanks to a cosmic wall.
The Conversation · Jan 12, 2023 Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves? What are gravitational waves? – Millie, age 10, Sydney
Inverse · Jan 10, 2023 Look! JWST image may upend our understanding of the early universe Astronomers peered into a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image. From this view of the deep Universe, they saw a large number of ancient galaxy candidates.
Inverse · Jan 3, 2023 How bright is the Universe? NASA’s Pluto probe shines a light on the long-standing enigma The light coming from stars beyond the Milky Way is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies – we are even more out there than we thought!
Inverse · Jan 1, 2023 A Large Hadron Collider discovery could point the way to dark matter An experiment with the Large Hadron Collider has demonstrated that we could catch dark matter in our universe.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 27, 2022 Webb Telescope Promises New Age of the Stars The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding a new era of astronomy and untold revelations about the cosmos in years to come. The most powerful observatory sent into space succeeded the Hubble telescope, which is still operating,…
WEKU · Dec 16, 2022 Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it? Even guardians of America's atomic clocks say time doesn't work the way we think it does.
The Conversation · Dec 11, 2022 Did physicists make a wormhole in the lab? Not quite, but a new experiment hints at the future of quantum simulations Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.