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Astronomers have spent nearly a century searching for dark matter, the invisible scaffolding thought to hold galaxies together. While there’s abundant indirect evidence to suggest this mysterious substance…
Read more Controversial New Study Points to the Most Promising Dark Matter Signal YetThe expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both…
Read more Expanding universe study teases “major paradigm shift in cosmology”A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion star. Since then, researchers have been toiling away at characterizing Betelbuddy—finding that with each…
Read more Betelgeuse’s Newfound Sidekick Is Weirder Than We ThoughtEvery large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center, each one emitting powerful winds of hot gas from its event horizon. Our galaxy should be no…
Read more After Decades of Searching, Scientists Make a Major Breakthrough in the Mystery Surrounding Our Galaxy’s Black HoleThe gravitational lensing not only splits the light source, but magnifies it, allowing a detailed view of the light source behind the lens. Thanks to this, the team…
Read more A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter HaloFor scientists, the urgent problem with phosphine—a molecule famously touted as a potential sign of life—isn’t so much about where it came from, but why it’s not where…
Read more ‘Failed Star’ Mimics a Key Sign of Life, Complicating Our Search for AliensAll galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. A new finding doesn’t contradict that observation, but it does suggest that we’ve been overestimating just how heavy…
Read more Turns Out the First Supermassive Black Holes Weren’t So Supermassive, Research SuggestsBy studying the chemical composition of an odd, dying star, astronomers discovered that it had been feasting on what used to be an icy, Pluto-like object. Nature can…
Read more ‘Dead’ Star Caught Snacking on Pluto-Like ObjectFor almost two decades, astronomers have detected extremely powerful, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) from beyond our galaxy—and had no clue where…
Read more Most Powerful Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected Hits Telescopes Across North AmericaA team of researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) is claiming that the groundbreaking image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is…
Read more Breakthrough Image of Milky Way Black Hole Is Flawed, New Analysis SuggestsNow two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ryan Unger of Stanford University and…
Read more Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are PossibleIf or when SLAC’s planned project, the Light Dark Matter Experiment (LDMX), receives funding—a decision from the Department of Energy is expected in the next year or so—it…
Read more The Hunt for Ultralight Dark MatterThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries,…
Read more NASA’s Quest to Touch the SunThe supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the Milky Way, but a newly spotted object takes the crown for…
Read more Astronomers Discover Heaviest Stellar Black Hole in the Milky WayPress Release – updated: Jul 17, 2019 TORONTO, July 17, 2019 (Newswire.com) – 16-year-old Zainab Azim, the World’s Youngest Future Astronaut, has become a sought-after inspirational speaker at…
Read more World’s Youngest Future Astronaut, Zainab Azim, Continues to Inspire the World
