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April 18, 2024

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First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

Apr. 4, 2024 — Researchers have used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to make the largest 3D map of our universe and world-leading measurements of dark energy, the mysterious cause of its accelerating ...

First Results from BREAD Experiment Demonstrate a New Approach to Searching for Dark Matter

Apr. 2, 2024 — One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it s ...

Astrophysicist's Research Could Provide a Hint in the Search for Dark Matter

Mar. 20, 2024 — Dark matter is one of science's greatest mysteries. Although it is believed to make up about 85 percent of the cosmos, scientists know very little about its fundamental nature. Research provides some ...

Largest-Ever Map of Universe's Active Supermassive Black Holes Released

Mar. 18, 2024 — Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ironically, some of the universe's brightest ...

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Physicists Solve Puzzle About Ancient Galaxy Found by Webb Telescope

Apr. 15, 2024 — Physicists solve a puzzle linked to JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current ...

Neutron Stars Are Key to Understanding Elusive Dark Matter

Apr. 5, 2024 — Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive dark ...

New Research Suggests That Our Universe Has No Dark Matter

Mar. 15, 2024 — A new study challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark ...

Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars

Mar. 6, 2024 — Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true nature of dark matter, according to ...

A Star Like a Matryoshka Doll: New Theory for Gravastars

Feb. 15, 2024 — If gravitational condensate stars (or gravastars) actually existed, they would look similar to black holes to a distant observer. Two theoretical physicists have now found a new solution to Albert ...

Bright Galaxies Put Dark Matter to the Test

Jan. 31, 2024 — The earliest galaxies are thought to have formed as the gravitational pull of dark matter, which has been impossible to study directly, slowly drew in enough hydrogen and helium to ignite stars. But ...

Stars Travel More Slowly at Milky Way's Edge

Jan. 26, 2024 — Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter than ...

Final Supernova Results from Dark Energy Survey Offer Unique Insights Into the Expansion of the Universe

Jan. 8, 2024 — In the culmination of a decade's worth of effort, scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine ...

Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos: Dark Matter Could Help Us Discover Their Origin

Jan. 3, 2024 — We don't know how magnetic fields in the cosmos formed. Now a new theoretical research tells how the invisible part of our universe could help us ...

Researchers Study a Million Galaxies to Find out How the Universe Began

Dec. 22, 2023 — Researchers have analyzed more than one million galaxies to explore primordial fluctuations that seeded the formation of the structure of the entire ...

Cosmic Lights in the Forest

Dec. 21, 2023 — Supercomputer helped astronomers develop PRIYA, the largest suite of hydrodynamic simulations yet made of large-scale structure in the ...

Interpreting the Afterglow of a Black Hole's Breakfast

Dec. 4, 2023 — An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international team of ...

New Way of Searching for Dark Matter

Nov. 27, 2023 — Wondering whether whether Dark Matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles, led researchers to explore a new detector signature known as semi-visible jets, which ...

Downloading NASA's Dark Matter Data from Above the Clouds

Nov. 14, 2023 — Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system. The system allowed the retrieval of gigabytes of information, even after communication ...

Milky Way-Like Galaxy Found in the Early Universe

Nov. 9, 2023 — Astronomers have discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, that has been observed to ...

Researchers Find Gravitational Lensing Has Significant Effect on Cosmic Birefringence

Nov. 2, 2023 — Future missions will be able to find signatures of violating the parity-symmetry in the cosmic microwave background polarization more accurately after a pair of researchers has managed to take into ...

Finding Explanation for Milky Way's Warp

Oct. 10, 2023 — Though scientists have long known through observational data that the Milky Way is warped and its edges are flared like a skirt, no one could explain why. Now, astronomers have performed the first ...

Pulsars May Make Dark Matter Glow

Oct. 6, 2023 — The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is that dark matter consists of particles known as axions. A team of astrophysicists has now shown ...

Shh! Quiet Cables Set to Help Reveal Rare Physics Events

Sep. 21, 2023 — Newly developed ultra-low radiation cables reduce background noise for neutrino and dark matter ...

Matter Comprises of 31% of the Total Amount of Matter and Energy in the Universe

Sep. 13, 2023 — One of the most interesting and important questions in cosmology is, 'How much matter exists in the universe?' An international team has now succeeded in measuring the total amount of ...

Discovery of Two Potential Polar Ring Galaxies Suggests These Stunning Rare Clusters Might Be More Common Than Previously Believed

Sep. 13, 2023 — These new detections suggest polar ring galaxies might be more common than previously ...

Dark Matter Halos Measured Around Ancient Quasars

Sep. 12, 2023 — At the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Beyond a certain size, these become active, emitting huge amounts of radiation, and are then called quasars. It is thought these are ...

The Universe Caught Suppressing Cosmic Structure Growth

Sep. 11, 2023 — As the universe evolves, scientists expect large cosmic structures to grow at a certain rate: dense regions such as galaxy clusters would grow denser, while the void of space would grow ...

New Cosmological Constraints on the Nature of Dark Matter

Sep. 7, 2023 — New research has revealed the distribution of dark matter in never before seen detail, down to a scale of 30,000 light-years. The observed distribution fluctuations provide better constraints on the ...

Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time

Aug. 24, 2023 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a ...

Dark Energy Camera Captures Galaxies in Lopsided Tug of War, a Prelude to Merger

July 26, 2023 — The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC ...

The Puzzle of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter

July 19, 2023 — New research has found the first evidence of a massive galaxy with no dark matter. The result is a challenge to the current standard model of ...

James Webb Telescope Catches Glimpse of Possible First-Ever 'Dark Stars'

July 13, 2023 — Three bright objects initially identified as galaxies in observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might actually represent an exotic new form of star. If confirmed, the discovery would also ...

Search for Dark Matter

July 13, 2023 — Scientists have applied a promising new method to search for dark matter particles in a particle accelerator. The method is based on the observation of the spin polarization of a particle beam in a ...

New Image from James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Astonishing Saturn and Its Rings

July 1, 2023 — Saturn's iconic rings seem to glow eerily in this incredible infrared picture, which also unveils unexpected features in Saturn's atmosphere. This image serves as context for an observing ...