Astronomers Find What May Be the Universe's Brightest Object With a Black Hole Devouring a Sun a Day
The brightest quasar in the universe discovered, 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, black hole 17 billion times more massive than the sun.
This Ancient "Rebel" Galaxy Closely Mirroring the Milky Way Has Astronomers Freaked Out
The discovery of REBELS-25 challenges existing theories on galaxy formation and evolution, suggesting early galaxies were more similar to the Milky Way than previously believed.
Why Is the Night Sky Dark? You Can Thank the Big Bang
The darkness of the night sky reveals profound insights about the universe and challenges conventional beliefs about its structure.
We've all been there! Black hole takes a 'nap' after overeating
A newly discovered black hole, 400 million times the Sun's mass, shows periods of hyperactivity followed by long dormancy, challenging black hole growth models.
NASA discovers the OLDEST supermassive black hole yet
Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating back more than 13 billion years ago.
The black hole is surprisingly massive, challenging assumptions about how black holes form and grow.
Starts With A Bang Podcast #112 - Galactic Archaeology
Galactic archaeology allows scientists to reconstruct the history of our galaxy using current observational data, much like archaeology reconstructs human history.
Astronomers Find What May Be the Universe's Brightest Object With a Black Hole Devouring a Sun a Day
The brightest quasar in the universe discovered, 500 trillion times brighter than the sun, black hole 17 billion times more massive than the sun.
This Ancient "Rebel" Galaxy Closely Mirroring the Milky Way Has Astronomers Freaked Out
The discovery of REBELS-25 challenges existing theories on galaxy formation and evolution, suggesting early galaxies were more similar to the Milky Way than previously believed.
Why Is the Night Sky Dark? You Can Thank the Big Bang
The darkness of the night sky reveals profound insights about the universe and challenges conventional beliefs about its structure.
We've all been there! Black hole takes a 'nap' after overeating
A newly discovered black hole, 400 million times the Sun's mass, shows periods of hyperactivity followed by long dormancy, challenging black hole growth models.
NASA discovers the OLDEST supermassive black hole yet
Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating back more than 13 billion years ago.
The black hole is surprisingly massive, challenging assumptions about how black holes form and grow.
Starts With A Bang Podcast #112 - Galactic Archaeology
Galactic archaeology allows scientists to reconstruct the history of our galaxy using current observational data, much like archaeology reconstructs human history.
Scientists are no longer sure the Universe began with a bang | Aeon Essays
Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory revolutionized our view of the Universe's origin, merging science and theology in the search for evidence of time's beginning.
Something Is Wrong with Dark Energy, Physicists Say
New research suggests dark energy has weakened over time, challenging previous assumptions of its constancy and prompting new insights into cosmic evolution.
Dark matter search: Are scientists looking in the wrong direction?
Scientists have only indirect evidence for dark matter, despite its expected prevalence in the Universe.
Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?
Dark energy might be weakening over time, challenging long-held cosmological beliefs.
How supernovae are helping uncover the mysteries of dark energy
Only 5 percent of the universe is made up of visible matter, while 27 percent is dark matter and 68 percent is dark energy.
Scientists are studying the mysteries of dark energy by analyzing data from the Dark Energy Survey, focusing on Type 1a supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe.
Opinion | Cosmic Voids in Space Taught Me to Find Meaning in Life
The universe's vast voids, while daunting, offer a choice: succumb to nihilism or illuminate the uniqueness of our existence.
Something Is Wrong with Dark Energy, Physicists Say
New research suggests dark energy has weakened over time, challenging previous assumptions of its constancy and prompting new insights into cosmic evolution.
Dark matter search: Are scientists looking in the wrong direction?
Scientists have only indirect evidence for dark matter, despite its expected prevalence in the Universe.
Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?
Dark energy might be weakening over time, challenging long-held cosmological beliefs.
How supernovae are helping uncover the mysteries of dark energy
Only 5 percent of the universe is made up of visible matter, while 27 percent is dark matter and 68 percent is dark energy.
Scientists are studying the mysteries of dark energy by analyzing data from the Dark Energy Survey, focusing on Type 1a supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe.
Opinion | Cosmic Voids in Space Taught Me to Find Meaning in Life
The universe's vast voids, while daunting, offer a choice: succumb to nihilism or illuminate the uniqueness of our existence.
Sprinters experience a unique silence while waiting for the starter's gun, with a sense of building a universe before the race.
Space Lasers Will Seek a New Kind of Gravitational Waves
Gravitational-wave observatories can detect the stirrings of early cosmic arrivals, such as black holes.
The European Space Agency has approved the space observatory LISA, which will search for specific frequencies of gravitational waves unseen by current ground-based detectors.
Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe
Astronomers have discovered a ring-shaped cosmic megastructure, known as the Big Ring, which challenges existing theories of the universe.
The Big Ring has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light years and is too faint to see directly, but its diameter on the night sky would be equivalent to 15 full moons.
Hubble Detects Uber-Strong Radio Transmission From Ancient "Blob"
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the possible birthplace of the most distant fast radio burst ever observed.
The fast radio burst originated from a group of at least seven galaxies that existed when the universe was five billion years old.
The Universe in a lab: Testing alternate cosmology using a cloud of atoms
Researchers in Germany have created a tabletop quantum field simulation to explore the possible features of the early Universe.
The simulation shows that it is possible to simulate a Universe with different curvatures, indicating that the curvature of the Universe might have been different at the beginning of its existence.
The study published in Nature involved studying three possible scenarios for the Universe's early expansion: constant, accelerated, and decelerated.
Why the skies are changing
The perfection and immutability of the stars in the universe provide a contrasting perspective to the ever-changing nature of the Earth and its inhabitants.