The Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach has released a new scientific visualization of data from the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey. The video represents Webb's exploration ...
Astronomy
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It's a bonanza: The universe is absolutely teeming with black holes. Researchers have long known this, but less massive black holes that existed in the early universe were too dim to detect—that is until the James Webb ...
Astronomy
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What is it like to work on the fundamental questions about the universe? On July 1, the Euclid satellite launched successfully. This mission from the European Space Agency will take images of the sky to create the most detailed ...
Astronomy
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Lado Samushia, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Kansas State University, is part of a collaboration studying the mysterious force behind the universe's accelerating expansion, referred to ...
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In the first moments of our universe, countless numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons formed alongside their antimatter counterparts. As the universe expanded and cooled, almost all these matter and antimatter particles ...
General Physics
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Observations of a star forming region on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, where conditions from the early universe are still preserved, found that the distribution of stellar masses is not radically different from what ...
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Jul 6, 2023
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A research team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Summit supercomputer to run one of the most complete cosmological models yet to probe the properties of ...
Astronomy
Jul 6, 2023
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Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed about 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole ...
Astronomy
Jul 6, 2023
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A pyromaniac is someone unhealthily obsessed with the destructive power of fire. Melinda Adams instead is pulled toward the term pyromantic—a lover of "good fire" for the benefits it can bring to people, communities and ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 5, 2023
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Using computer simulations, an international team of cosmologists have discovered that observations of gravitational waves from merging black holes may unveil the true nature of dark matter. Their finding will be presented ...
Astronomy
Jul 5, 2023
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