The Event Horizon Telescope is expanding its portfolio of black hole images. In 2019, the telescope unveiled the first image of a black hole, revealing the supermassive beast 55 light-years from…
Experiment opens up field for new physics, say Fermilab, UChicago scientistsThe news that muons have a little extra wiggle in their step sent word buzzing around the world this spring.…
There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey. A central law for black holes predicts that the area of their event horizons —…
The Milky Way’s Double Bubble When it comes to blowing bubbles, never go toe-to-toe with a galaxy. Ten years ago, astronomers were astonished to discover large bubble-like structures emerging from the heart…
The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding Physicists are checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms…
For as long as there has been a Universe, space has been expanding. It winked into existence roughly 13.8 billion years ago, and has been puffing up ever since, like…
CfA Scientists Discover Mysterious Spiral Structures around a "Planet Factory" Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) announced today the discovery of a complex…
“Stellar archaeology” reveals remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind” A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar…
A Vast Stream of Flowing Stars Is Evidence of The Milky Way's Violent History Using data from the Gaia Milky Way mapping survey, astronomers have discovered a vast…
Scientists spot flash of light from colliding black holes. But how? Scientists think they identified two black holes merging that produced a burst of light. Black holes aren't supposed…
Did Galaxies Grow from Quantum Static? A new test could determine whether large-scale cosmic structures have microscopic origins Did Galaxies Grow from Quantum Static? Quantum fluctuations in the…
CERN makes bold push to build €21-billion super-collider European particle-physics lab will pursue a 100-kilometre machine to uncover the Higgs boson’s secrets — but it doesn’t yet have…
eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe | Astronomy | Sci-News.com A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over…
"A Darker, Deeper Cosmos" --Looking Beyond the Standard Model | The Daily Galaxy Could dark matter particles the size of galaxies exist, or a anti-gravitational force field we…