Cracks in the universe refers to cosmic strings, which are hypothetical topological defects theorized to have formed during ...
This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...
On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...
In 2019, the Hubble team released this image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the telescope's 29th anniversary. It is also among the most massive and luminous X-ray sources in ...
The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not exert enough gravitational force to explain why, say, an object is orbiting ...
From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that remain unanswered.
Distant galaxies appear red because their light is stretched (red light has longer wavelengths) by the expanding universe stretching it. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field features about 100 small ...
(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...
A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe ... is also called field-level inference ...