News tagged with cosmic repulsion

A Theory of Dark Matter

Among the most astounding, unexpected, and important achievements of the past century (or even more) have been the discoveries of dark matter and dark energy, collectively dubbed the "dark sector."

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (45) | comments 58




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Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (87) | comments 254 | with audio podcast

Leading the quest to crack cosmological mysteries

Sometimes a scientist can only laugh in the face of a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 125 | with audio podcast

Repulsive gravity as an alternative to dark energy (Part 1: In voids)

(PhysOrg.com) -- When scientists discovered in 1998 that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, the possibility that dark energy could explain the observation was intriguing. But because there ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (49) | comments 125 | with audio podcast report

Hubble breaks new ground with discovery of distant exploding star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. The sighting is the first finding of an ambitious ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Clearest picture yet of dark matter points the way to better understanding of dark energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have independently made the largest direct measurements of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Single magnesium ion brought to standstill by means of novel, simple laser cooling

Quantum logic is quite a new and absolutely fascinating field of physics and might – ultimately – lead to the fabrication of a quantum computer. And it could also aid the search for the "theory of ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Why the LHC (Still) won’t destroy the Earth

Surprisingly, rumors still persist in some corners of the Internet that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going to destroy the Earth – even though nearly three years have passed since it was first turned ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 62

Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest unsolved problems in astrophysics is that galaxies and galaxy clusters rotate faster than expected, given the amount of existing baryonic (normal) matter. The fast orbits ...

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created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (85) | comments 222 | with audio podcast report

Galaxy Evolution Explorer finds dark energy repulsive

(PhysOrg.com) -- A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Tycho's supernova remnant: New evidence on origin of supernovas found

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers may now know the cause of an historic supernova explosion that is an important type of object for investigating dark energy in the universe. The discovery, made using NASA's Chandra ...

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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