Young galaxy puts a spin on old models
Radio telescope combines with cosmic magnifying glass to study the early universe.
From an arid and isolated plateau in the Atacama Desert, a radio telescope has spied a baby galaxy in the infant univ...
Astrophysics
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Astronomers find ‘Goldilocks’ black hole
Early black holes may seed their more massive cousins.
Last year, scientists used gravitational waves to detect an elusive intermediate-mass black hole for the first time. ...
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Space debris? SCOOP it up!
An innovative proposal might make all the difference to de-junking near-Earth space.
A network of mobile observatories deployed across Australia’s vast expanse could be a new weapon in the battle agains...
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W boson spotted in Antarctica
IceCube observatory spots elementary particle needle in a galactic haystack.
On 6 December 2016, a high-energy particle hurtled from outer space and through an Antarctic ice sheet, where it slam...
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Video
Cosmic neutrino blast
Tidal disruption event gives birth to travelling neutrino.
A little bit more is now known about the cosmos, thanks to research involving a neutrino space odyssey, a black hole ...
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More massive, more problems
Heavy black hole may change astronomers’ understanding of their formation.
The first black hole ever discovered is more massive than we thought, according to an international team of astronome...
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Baby galaxies born big
Faint, distant fossil galaxy has massive dark-matter halo.
The first galaxies in the universe were likely more massive than previously thought, according to new research from M...
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Milliseconds measure galactic gravity
Data from pulsars widens knowledge of dark matter and gravitational waves.
Scientists measuring tiny changes in the arrival times of signals from millisecond pulsars have found a new way to me...
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Star-making motion
International team produces the world’s highest-resolution simulation of astrophysical turbulence.
Quantum physicist Richard Feynman once called turbulence “the most important unsolved problem of classical physics”. ...
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History
James Van Allen was known for his belts
Apollo astronauts can thank the would-be sailor.
A January 2017 article in Popular Mechanics magazine, with the headline “How NASA got Apollo astronauts through the d...
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Glaciers may answer a Martian mystery
New study offers new theory on faint young Sun paradox.
Rather than flowing across its surface during a warm, wet phase early in its history, the water that carved the river...