Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed Pantheon+, cosmologists find themselves at a crossroads.
Astronomy
Oct 19, 2022
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By analyzing the data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys and from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS), an international team of astronomers has made a rare finding—the detection ...
Could one of the biggest puzzles in astrophysics be solved by reworking Albert Einstein's theory of gravity? A new study co-authored by NASA scientists says not yet.
Astronomy
Aug 24, 2022
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A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear—but scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe.
Astronomy
Aug 16, 2022
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Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.
General Physics
Jul 4, 2022
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A supernova is the catastrophic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae, in particular, signal the complete destruction of a white dwarf star, leaving nothing behind. At least that's what models and observations suggested.
Astronomy
Jun 23, 2022
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Using the Subaru telescope, an international team of astronomers have performed deep multi-band photometric observations of a dwarf irregular galaxy known as NGC 6822. Results of the observational campaign, presented May ...
Astronomers from the University of Arizona (UA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy. The newfound galaxy, designated Tucana B, is the first quenched and isolated object of this type identified ...
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy as part of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. The newly found galaxy, designated Pegasus IV, has an absolute magnitude ...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensional galaxy surveys, creating the largest and most detailed ...
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2022
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