Proving the Existence of the Quark-Gluon Plasma With Gravitational Waves
Computer models of merging neutron stars predicts new signature in the gravitational waves to tell when this happens. Neutron stars are among the densest objects…
Computer models of merging neutron stars predicts new signature in the gravitational waves to tell when this happens. Neutron stars are among the densest objects…
The recently retired infrared observatory was the only telescope to spot a far-off flash of light that holds clues about the physical characteristics of these…
A direct, observation-based test of one of the pillars of cosmology. The universe is full of billions of galaxies — but their distribution across space…
Pulsars are dead stars that spin remarkably steadily – they are some of the most regularly ticking clocks in the Universe! However, every few years…
Not only does a universal constant seem annoyingly inconstant at the outer fringes of the cosmos, it occurs in only one direction, which is downright…
Atoms and molecules behave very differently at extreme temperatures and pressures. Although such extreme matter doesn’t exist naturally on Earth, it exists in abundance in…
On the 17th of August 2017, the world of astronomy bore witness to an unprecedented event: the LIGO/Virgo collaboration recorded the vibrations of a merging…
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell…
The Hubble Space Telescope offers insight into the nature of exoplanet Fomalhaut b. What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system, has now…
Just like we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us, the Milky Way has satellite galaxies with their own satellites. Drawing from data on…
When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that…
2I/Borisov likely formed in extremely cold environment, high amounts of carbon monoxide show. A galactic visitor entered our solar system last year – interstellar comet…
Though mighty, the Milky Way and galaxies of similar mass are not without scars chronicling turbulent histories. University of California, Irvine astronomers, and others have…
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of…
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal the eccentricity of binary black holes: the shape of the orbit formed…
UC Riverside physicists demonstrate ‘self-interacting dark matter’ model can be tested using astronomical observations of Draco and Fornax. A research team led by physicists at…
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center…
Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major international experiment in Japan are closing in on the mystery of why there is so much matter in…