Dark matter was likely the starting ingredient for brewing up the very first galaxies in the universe. Shortly after the Big Bang, particles of dark matter would have clumped together in gravitational "halos," pulling surrounding ...
General Physics
Oct 3, 2019
65
743
Giants once roamed the karst plains of southern China, three-meter tall apes weighing in at 250 kilograms. These very distant primate relatives—Gigantopithcus blacki—went extinct before humans arrived in the region, with ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 10, 2024
5
375
Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent scientific issues—for example ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 25, 2020
0
293
Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy—described as a "cosmic ring of fire"—as it existed 11 billion years ago.
Astronomy
May 25, 2020
16
3438
A new conjecture is the cause of excitement in the string theory community. Timm Wrase of the Vienna University of Technology has now published his much-discussed results on recent new developments.
General Physics
Oct 8, 2018
35
297
An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early Universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive ...
Astronomy
Oct 17, 2018
5
498
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an international team of astronomers who studied 118 distant galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...
Astronomy
Oct 27, 2020
48
557
Researchers have long suspected a connection between information and the physical universe, with various paradoxes and thought experiments used to explore how or why information could be encoded in physical matter. The digital ...
General Physics
Oct 19, 2021
28
1618
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have contributed to a landmark study that complicates our understanding of the universe.
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2024
7
235
A team of astronomers has developed a method that will allow them to "see" through the fog of the early universe and detect light from the first stars and galaxies.
Astronomy
Jul 21, 2022
5
204
