Can we tell black holes apart? Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt answer this question by…
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Cosmology is the scientific study of the origin, structure, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. It explores the largest scales of space and time, seeking to understand phenomena such as the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy. By combining observations from telescopes, satellites, and large-scale surveys with theoretical physics, cosmologists aim to unravel how the universe began, how it has changed over billions of years, and what its ultimate destiny might be. As new data from missions like the James Webb Space Telescope and surveys like DESI emerge, cosmology continues to shed light on some of the most profound questions in science.
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics…
This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700…
A “core-collapse” supernova occurs when the iron core of a massive star collapses under the…
Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected…
On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses…
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress…
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe’s earliest light to map…
A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped…
Black holes in dense stellar clusters could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything…
This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite elliptical galaxies…
Cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are white dwarf stars that are accreting from an orbiting, low-mass…
Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations…
Witness the most spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos through Hubble’s eye. These unique…
A Columbia University-led team of astrophysicists has discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius…
New images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance…