Chaotic Triple Drama: Black Hole Billiards in the Centers of Galaxies
Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to…
Cosmology News
Mysterious Cosmic Flashes Pinpointed to a Surprising Location in Space – “Closest Ever”
Astronomers have been surprised by the closest source of mysterious flashes in the sky called fast radio bursts. Precision measurements with radio telescopes reveal that…
Breaking Cosmology: Too Many Disk Galaxies – “A Significant Discrepancy Between Prediction and Reality”
A study by the University of Bonn: Observations fit poorly with the Standard Model of Cosmology. The Standard Model of Cosmology describes how the universe…
Unprecedented Number of Globular Clusters Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
New treasure trove of globular clusters holds clues about galaxy evolution. Using observations of the nearby elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, a team of astronomers led…
Part of the Universe’s Missing Matter Found Thanks to Very Large Telescope
Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. The MUSE instrument from the Very Large Telescope has, for the very first time,…
Twin Supernovae Open Up New Possibilities for Precision Cosmology
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious…
Fundamental Principle of Cosmology Cast in Doubt by Compelling New Study
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard raises doubts about basic assumption for the universe. No matter where we look, the same rules apply…
Dark Emulator: AI Predicts the Structure of the Universe to Help Solve Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The origin of how the Universe created its voids and filaments can now be studied within seconds after researchers developed an artificial intelligence tool called…
Very Existence of Dark Energy Cast in Doubt After New High Precision Data
New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error. High precision age dating of supernova host galaxies…
State-of-the-Art Technology Used to Further Refine How Quickly the Universe Is Expanding
Clemson team collaborates to quantify one of the most fundamental laws of the cosmos. Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy Orientated Directly Edge-On To Us
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. But…
Noteworthy Discoveries From TESS Mission’s First Year
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern…
Einstein’s General Relativity Theory Beginning to Fray at the Edges
More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez,…
Sequence of Events Which Gave Rise to the Milky Way Revealed
The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very…
Gaia Makes First Direct Measurement of the Galactic Bar in the Milky Way
The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of our Milky Way galaxy has been made by combining data from…
Astronomers Reveal New Measurement for Universe Expansion
Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely different kind of star than previous endeavors. The revised…
ALMA Reveals Moon-Forming Disk Around Distant Planet
Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one…
Astronomers Discover A Black Hole Disk That Shouldn’t Exist
As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a…