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Astrophysics
Until now, scientists assumed that a dense region of the universe is pulling us toward it, in the same way that gravity made Newton's apple fall to earth. The initial "prime suspect" wa…
Anyone who loves physics knows about String Theory. If, by some miraculous chance, you've never heard of it before…well, prepare to be introduced to one of the most interesting and highly contest…
The most powerful kind of cosmic explosions known to science are called gamma-ray bursts – aka ' death from space ' – galactic events so fierce their awesome intensity is only surpassed by th…
Just few days ago astronomers claimed to have to discover a Pulsar , PSR J0540-6919, which lies outside the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud nearly 163,000 light-years away. Pulsars ar…
Humans have long tried to explain how stars came to light up the night sky. The wide array of theories throughout history have one common (and correct) governing principle that astrophysicists still …
Back in May, NASA scientists publicized a successful 10-week trial of their EM Drive prototype, and designer Guido Fetta just got authorization to test his own EM Drive in space. And now the UK Intel…
For the first time, scientists have successfully studied clouds and wind on the night side of Venus. And they’ve revealed that it's very different from the day side. That vital data comes from E…
Scientists have long observed an apparent gradient in the cosmic microwave background but have been unable to determine how much is real and how much is perceived. USC Dornsife researchers appear to …
What if there is a deeper reality out there? What if our universe is an illusion? What if we are living in a hologram? Cue Twilight Zone music. Credit: TU Wien Or, alternatively, ask associate profes…
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum world are generally confined to t…
A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly…
In 1929 Edwin Hubble surprised many people -- including Albert Einstein -- when he showed that the universe is expanding. Another bombshell came in 1998 when two teams of astronomers proved that cosm…
The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their discovery more than a decade ago. A supermassive black hole is thought to form over billions…
Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was filled primarily with neutral hydrogen g…
