Could gravitational waves be the key to cosmic communication?
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...
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How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
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All most shocking discoveries of the James Webb telescope since beginning of its operation
On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...
Recreating the Big Bang: Tiny Collisions Reveal Droplets of the Universe’s First Matter
Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
A Star Wars comic killed off a minor prequels character and the internet is in mourning
RIP Watto. The prequels character was killed off in a new Star Wars comic, and the internet is in mourning. Star Wars: Legacy ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
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Powerful forces have made the structure of the universe very "messy"
Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...
1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
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Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis
"The Hubble tension is now a Hubble crisis." The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that ...
Webb’s Stunning Discovery: Could These Mysterious “Little Red Dots” Be the Universe’s Earliest Black Holes?
Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.