Mar 15, 2023 by News Staff

The new animation shows the gamma-ray sky’s frenzied activity during a year of observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray...

Mar 13, 2023 by News Staff

A local wormhole is a physical system characterized by the no-cloning of information that mediates the action of an exchange-free quantum computer: locally...

Mar 13, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers from the COSMOS-Web program released mosaic images taken in early January 2023 by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument...

Mar 9, 2023 by News Staff

3C 297 is located about 9.2 billion light-years away in the constellation of Virgo and contains a quasar, a supermassive black hole pulling in gas at the...

Mar 7, 2023 by News Staff

New research led by the Swinburne University of Technology shows that the amount of warm carbon suddenly increased by a factor of five over a period of...

Mar 2, 2023 by News Staff

Ultramassive black holes with extreme masses of over 50 billion solar masses can be formed in the rare events that are multiple quasar mergers happening...

Feb 28, 2023 by News Staff

The newly-discovered galaxy, SPT0418-SE, and its much larger companion, SPT0418-47, reside in a massive dark-matter halo with yet-to-be-discovered neighbors,...

Feb 23, 2023 by News Staff

According to observations and cosmological simulations, dwarf galaxies are the most abundant type of galaxies in the early Universe and the galaxy merger...

Feb 22, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed six candidate galaxies with stellar masses as high as 1011 solar masses about...

Feb 22, 2023 by News Staff

In 2015, astrophysicists for the first time detected gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that occur when neutron star or black hole mergers disrupt...

Feb 16, 2023 by News Staff

Webb astronomers estimate 50,000 near-infrared sources are represented in the new image of the huge galaxy megacluster Abell 2744. This Webb image shows...

Feb 15, 2023 by News Staff

Cosmological coupling — a newly-predicted phenomenon in Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity — allows black holes to grow in mass without...

Feb 6, 2023 by News Staff

We are seeing the ‘Sparkler’ galaxy from 9.1 billion years ago, some 4 billion years after the Big Bang. An artist’s impression of our Milky Way...

Jan 25, 2023 by News Staff

GHZ2/GLASS-z12, initially identified in the JWST GLASS survey, existed when the Universe was only 367 million years old (redshift z=12.117). This image...

Jan 24, 2023 by News Staff

In the HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics (HYPER) model, some time after the formation of dark matter in the early Universe, the strength of its interaction...

Jan 23, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water ice as well as frozen forms of carbonyl sulfide, ammonia, methane, and...

Jan 23, 2023 by News Staff

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory physicists Deepen Garg and Ilya Dodin say they can better understand the state of the cosmos shortly after the Big...

Jan 18, 2023 by News Staff

Using archival data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, astronomers have captured a radio signal at a specific wavelength known as the 21 cm line...

Jan 13, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have revealed many new pockets of star formation in NCG 346, an open star cluster in the...

Jan 10, 2023 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected three high-redshift galaxies with remarkable similarities to ‘green pea’...