For a quarter of a century, dark energy has loomed large as one of the great mysteries of the cosmos. First proposed in the ...
Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan talked about her work in black hole origins, and challenges of being a woman in STEM ...
A new recipe for black holes could do away with central singularities, saving the laws of physics from troubling infinities.
When two enormous black holes collide in deep space, they send shockwaves rippling across the universe. These shockwaves, ...
Described as a 'gold mine,' the data could help solve astronomical questions about the expansion of the universe and the ...
The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak ...
For decades, astronomers have relied on Einstein’s theory of relativity to explain the expansion of the universe, assuming ...
Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped ...
The discovery of Dark Energy in 1998 was a shock. Before then, scientists believed the Universe’s expansion, triggered by the Big Bang, would gradually slow due to gravity. Instead, astronomers found ...
Dark energy is the placeholder name scientists have given to the unknown force causing the universe to expand faster and ...
Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered something extraordinary: a primordial galaxy, JADES-GS ...