Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow ...
Astronomy
Nov 17, 2016
3
408
ICRAR researchers have discovered tantalizing evidence of magnetic fields in the universe's largest cosmic structures.
Astronomy
Feb 16, 2023
162
329
The most barren regions known are the far-flung corners of intergalactic space. In these vast expanses between the galaxies there is just one solitary atom per cubic meter—a diffuse haze of hydrogen gas left over from the ...
Astronomy
Apr 27, 2017
0
566
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers today declared the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory ready for a new decade of exploration, with the release of observations from four of its six operating science ...
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2009
4
0
On the largest scales, the universe is ordered into a web-like pattern: galaxies are pulled together into clusters, which are connected by filaments and separated by voids. These clusters and filaments contain dark matter, ...
Astronomy
Feb 20, 2023
1
149
(Phys.org) —Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.
Astronomy
May 24, 2013
36
0
A team of astronomers has discovered a new way to unlock the mysteries of how the first galaxies formed and evolved.
Astronomy
Jul 24, 2018
1
189
An instrument designed to image the vast web of gas that connects galaxies in the universe has been shipped from Los Angeles to Hawaii, where it will be integrated into the W. M. Keck Observatory.
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2017
0
23
(Phys.org)—Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us with unprecedented accuracy. The team, led by Francisco ...
Astronomy
Sep 24, 2012
3
0
Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This "cosmic web" started out ...
Astronomy
Jun 29, 2023
0
374
