News tagged with cosmology
Related topics: galaxies , black holes , universe
Astronomers observe fast growing primitive black holes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Einstein's theory of relativity on display for first time
In a darkened room in Jerusalem, the world was given a rare glimpse Sunday into the mind of Albert Einstein as he worked to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Mar 07, 2010 |
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No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky Way Uncovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have been used to ...
Feb 17, 2010 |
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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 ...
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Feb 04, 2010 |
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A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind
(PhysOrg.com) -- An extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily long-lasting supernova named SN 2007bi, snagged in a search by a robotic telescope, turns out to be the first example of the kind of stars that first ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies
The Universe's infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year, according to scientists at Durham University.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Shedding Light on the Cosmic Skeleton
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have tracked down a gigantic, previously unknown assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years away from us. The discovery, made possible by combining two of the ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory
A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe
Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group.
Oct 26, 2009 |
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The cosmic comic: Riding early waves
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental research in cosmology continues to disclose ever more mysteries of the first millennia of the universe. More detailed knowledge will be delivered by the recently launched Planck ...
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Aug 05, 2009 |
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What if there is only one universe?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, ...
Jun 04, 2009 |
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QUIET team to deploy new gravity-wave probe in June
A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.
May 15, 2009 |
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The day the universe froze: New dark energy model includes cosmological phase transition
Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of the size it is today.
May 08, 2009 |
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Refined Hubble Constant narrows explanations for dark energy
Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where ...
May 07, 2009 |
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Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis
As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance in the last two decades, yet no direct ...
May 05, 2009 |
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