The Worldwide Coordinated Quest for Dark Matter
An international team of researchers, led by the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), has…
Astronomy
New Assortment of Globular Clusters contains insights to Galaxy Evolution
Using images of Centaurus A, a neighboring elliptical galaxy, taken with the Gaia space telescope and ground-based equipment as part of the PISCeS survey, a…
How can Galaxies exist in the Absence of Dark Matter?
Astrophysicists report that when tiny galaxies collide with larger ones, the larger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter – matter that…
Solar Flares’ Mysterious Finger-like Properties are explained by Scientists
The Sun’s surface is a hive of activity. It contains electrically charged gases that produce zones of strong magnetic fields. These are known as magnetic…
There are Far more Disk Galaxies than Theory Allows
According to most physicists, the Standard Model of Cosmology depicts how the universe came into being. The evolution of galaxies within this model has now…
Mathematical Discovery could Reveal Universe Mysteries
A mathematical breakthrough could aid scientists in unifying Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity and the realm of quantum physics into a single universal idea. According…
Fast Radio Bursts could explain the Puzzle of the Universe’s Expansion
Two teams of astronomers set out in the early 1990s to measure the universe’s expansion history in order to forecast its future. If the universal…
The Largest Spinning Objects in Space may be Cosmic Filaments
Moons, stars, and even entire galaxies do it. Now, two teams of scientists claim that cosmic filaments do it as well. These hundreds of millions…
Kepler-10b – a Terrestrial Planet
Kepler-10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet identified beyond the Solar System by the Kepler Space Telescope. It orbits one of the 150,000 stars monitored…
Binary Stars continue to Masquerade as Black Holes
A binary black hole (BBH) is a system made up of two black holes orbiting each other in close proximity. Binary black holes, like black…
Physicists describe how the sort of Aurora on Mars is Generated
The aurora borealis is a light-in-the-sky display that occurs predominantly at night in Mars’ southern hemisphere. While their existence has long been known, scientists have…
Supermassive Black Holes discovered in Dying Galaxies in the Early Universe
A worldwide team of astronomers utilized a database that combined images from the world’s top telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from…
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