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Fast Radio Burst Source Traced Record Distance Across The Universe

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

She worked at Harvard for 30 cents an hour, her work shaped our understanding of the universe, but never won a Nobel Prize

Henrietta Swan Leavitt worked as a Harvard “computer” earning just 30 cents an hour, yet her groundbreaking discovery of the ...

Yes, the ‘Alien’ timeline is confusing. Before you dig into the franchise’s first TV series, here’s some clarity

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the ...
Futurism on MSN6h

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN11h

How Milky Way’s Future Collision with Andromeda Could Shape the Universe

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...
Physics World17h

MOND versus dark matter: the clash for cosmology’s soul

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft14h

Astronomers Spot the “Eye of Sauron” in Deep Space

Home > Pressemitteilung: Astronomers Spot the “Eye of Sauron” ... < The “Eye of Sauron”: plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, threaded by a nearly perfect toroidal ma ... Copyright: Y.Y. Kovalev et ...

NASA’s Webb May Have Found a Planet Next Door. Then It Vanished

Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest stellar neighbor, has long captured the imagination of science fiction and ...