What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe
per year, approximately 1,000 Type Ia supernovae exploded across the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade in ...
Tag: Astrophysics
No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology
crack in Cosmology should take a while to emerge. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned on ...
The Enigma of Dragonfly 44, the Galaxy That’s Almost Invisible
In 2016, astronomers A team led by Yale University's Pieter van Dokkum has published a bombshell paper claiming to ...
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
In the morning On Oct. 9, astronomers had a relatively modest alert in their inboxes: NASA's Swift Observatory had ...
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key
May 12, In nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists have revealed the first image of the black ...
Humanity Is Doing Its Best Impression of a Black Hole
One thing all human civilizations have in common is that they will all come to an end. This has ...
A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter
In particular, Antipas' team used their experiments to search for a class of dark matter known as ultralight dark ...
