News tagged with cosmological data

Decoding cosmological data could shed light on neutrinos, modified gravity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today’s most powerful telescopes collect huge amounts of data from the most distant locations of the universe – yet much of the information is simply discarded because it involves ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 104 | with audio podcast feature

Dark matter mystery deepens

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like all galaxies, our Milky Way is home to a strange substance called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, betraying its presence only through its gravitational pull. Without dark matter ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Madly Mapping the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Astrophysicists discover new heating source in cosmological structure formation

(Phys.org) -- So far, astrophysicists thought that super-massive black holes can only influence their immediate surroundings. A collaboration of scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies ...

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Penn astrophysicists zero in on gravity theory

(Phys.org) -- Most people take gravity for granted. But for University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain, the nature of gravity is the question of a lifetime. As scientists have been able to see ...

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created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (39) | comments 255 | with audio podcast

X-ray quasars, and a distance record

Quasars are thought to be galaxies whose bright nuclei contain massive black holes around which disks are actively accreting matter. The accretion process releases vast amounts of energy, often including a ...

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

WiggleZ project reaches new heights in measuring neutrino mass

The lightest known subatomic particles in the Universe are now able to be more accurately scrutinised, in light of new astronomic research two years in the making.

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created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Atomic clock comparison via data highways

(Phys.org) -- Optical atomic clocks measure time with unprecedented accuracy. However, it is the ability to compare clocks with one another that makes them applicable for high-precision tests in fundamental ...

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created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Searching for the elusive Higgs Particle

The world of physics has its mysteries, but one of its biggest—whether the elusive Higgs boson actually exists—is closer to a resolution, of sorts.

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 15

Wise catches aging star erupting with dust

(Phys.org) -- Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Do the Milky Way's companions spell trouble for dark matter?

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered a vast structure of satellite galaxies and clusters of stars surrounding our Galaxy, stretching out across a million light years. ...

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created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

New Domain: International team installs first of three telescopes in Antarctica

A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese Kunlun ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The lives of stars, or astronomers as paparazzi

Stars live for a long time, with even the most massive stars having lifetimes measured in millions of years. But, for a mere few thousand years towards the end of their lives, some massive stars go through ...

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created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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