Astrophysicists chronicle the history of mathematical cosmology
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RUDN University astrophysicists have gathered the most important discoveries of modern cosmology from 1917…
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‘A time machine’: For Stanford astrophysicists, Webb Telescope’s first images usher in a
The release of five historic photos taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the attention of the public, drawing awe on social media over NASA’s latest advancements and countless reposts of pictures depicting white…
Astrophysicists Predict Gravitational Wave Strength From Merging Supermassive Black Holes
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge.Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerated masses that propagate as waves at the speed of light outward from their source.…
Astrophysicists Lock Horns Over Whether Multiverse Must Exist
Recently, online magazine Big Think challenged two astrophysicists, Ethan Siegel (Yes) and Adam Frank (No) to debate the question.
Ethan Siegel
From Ethan Siegel’s argument for the multiverse:
If cosmic inflation and…
Astrophysicists Say ‘Planetary Intelligence’ Exists… But Earth Doesn’t Have Any
We tend to think of intelligence as something that describes just one individual. But it's possible to describe all kinds of collectives as intelligent, too – whether we're talking about social groups of humans, enclaves of insects, or…
Astrophysicists solve a dark matter puzzle
In a new Nature Astronomy study, an international team of astrophysicists report how, when tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter — matter that we can’t see…
Astrophysicists Make Most Precise Measurement Yet of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Mass
Sagittarius A*, supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, has a mass of 4.3 million times that of the Sun, according to an analysis of observations by the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope…
Harvard Astrophysicists Help Make Historic Discovery in Understanding Black Hole’s
A team of astronomers, including Harvard affiliates, have captured the first-ever image of a black hole’s polarized emission — which offers insight into its magnetic fields — according to an article published in the Astrophysical Journal…
Cepheus spur: Spanish astrophysicists discover new region of Milky Way | USA
A team of researchers from the Spanish Astrobiology Center (CAB) has presented the most accurate map of the Milky Way to date, and described the existence of the “Cepheus spur,” a formation of blue stars hotter than the sun that had…
Taylor Swift unhappiest with blue-eyed men: Astrophysicists
There’s no shaking off this scientific finding: Astrophysicists have officially studied the most useless of topics — Taylor Swift’s happiness.
And in a ground-breaking, earth-shattering conclusion, University of…