astrophysics

But the word “most” is important. The ACT team’s findings agree with studies of the CMB made with instruments like the…
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The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because gravity…
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Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in a…
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The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened…
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It’s a lot of detail about two faraway objects, especially if you consider the astrophysicists only directly observed…
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A few years ago, physicist Ivan Vorobyev’s team at the Large Hadron Collider began producing an exotic form of…
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In 2016, astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University published a bombshell paper claiming the discovery of a…
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On the morning of October 9, astronomers’ inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA’s Swift Observatory had…
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On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the…
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The one thing that all human civilizations have in common is that they end. For 10,000 years or so, that's been the…
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