Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their international collaborators have recently developed a new method for efficiently extracting information from galaxy ...
Astronomy
Apr 19, 2024
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What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years.
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2024
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Fans of science history can now access a new gem: A 20-minute video interview with the father of the Big Bang theory, Belgian Catholic priest and physicist Georges Lemaître.
Astronomy
Jan 26, 2023
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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are objects that formed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang, considered by many researchers among the principal candidates in explaining the nature of dark matter, above all following ...
General Physics
Sep 17, 2019
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Scientists have calculated the mass range for Dark Matter—and it's tighter than the science world thought.
General Physics
Jan 27, 2021
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An experiment to test a popular theory of dark energy has found no evidence of new forces, placing strong constraints on related theories.
General Physics
Aug 19, 2019
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A giant comet from the outskirts of our solar system has been discovered in six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, ...
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2021
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A new Scientific Reports study proposes an extension of the electron Born self-energy (eBse) model, unveiling a mechanism for cosmic inflation driven by a constant potential energy density, thereby challenging the conventional ...
In a striking example of multi-mission astronomy, measurements from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESA Gaia mission have been combined to improve the estimate of the mass of our home galaxy the Milky Way: 1.5 ...
Astronomy
Mar 7, 2019
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A team of researchers with members affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found evidence for more dark-matter-deficient dwarf galaxies. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes ...
