Scientists Use Quasars To Probe Dark Energy & Measure Its Role in the Evolution of the Universe
An international team of scientists is measuring the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe by using a new mapping technique that…
An international team of scientists is measuring the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe by using a new mapping technique that…
Scientists are exploring the mystery of a distant and very bright quasar that dates to less than one billion years after the Big Bang. Hubble…
Using four submillimeter telescopes working simultaneously around the globe, a team of astronomers from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and colleagues made the first detailed measurements…
This extended jet of cosmic materials, traveling near light speed, emerged from a distant galaxy. The flow is almost 2 million light-years long, at least…
Using three telescopes (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona) to create an interferometer,…
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that they have detected dark galaxies by observing their glow as…
Quasars, which are powered by supermassive black holes, are among the brightest objects in the universe and make it nearly impossible for astronomers to estimate…
Scientists aren’t sure how quasars form, how they develop in time, or how (or what) physical processes generate their stupendous energies; but by using a…