One professor who studies the earth and one who studies space came together in the pursuit to detect and define dark matter. They are one step closer. Using 16 years of archival data from GPS satellites that that orbit the ...
General Physics
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The universe is not only expanding - it is accelerating outward, driven by what is commonly referred to as "dark energy." The term is a poetic analogy to label for dark matter, the mysterious material that dominates the matter ...
Astronomy
Oct 2, 2017
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It's a cosmic irony: the biggest things in the universe can also be the hardest to find.
Astronomy
Aug 28, 2017
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Researchers from the University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire universe with a large supercomputer. A gigantic catalogue of about 25 billion virtual galaxies has been generated from 2 trillion digital ...
Astronomy
Jun 9, 2017
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Astronomers have constructed the first map of the universe based on the positions of supermassive black holes, which reveals the large-scale structure of the universe.
Astronomy
May 19, 2017
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This summer, an ice chest-sized box will fly to the International Space Station, where it will create the coolest spot in the universe.
Quantum Physics
Mar 6, 2017
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Astronomy experiments could soon test an idea developed by Albert Einstein almost exactly a century ago, scientists say.
General Physics
Feb 10, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of space researchers with members from Yale University, MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has found a bump in X-ray readings from the Chandra-X-ray observatory that appears to be ...
The universe is an astonishingly secretive place. Mysterious substances known as dark matter and dark energy account for some 95% of it. Despite huge effort to find out what they are, we simply don't know.
General Physics
Jan 6, 2017
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How much light does a supernova shed on the history of universe?
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2017
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