In the Fascinating Realm of Supernovae, a Newly Discovered Remnant Has a Unique Shape: It’s Perfectly Symmetrical
ResearchIdentifying a supernova is an event that astronomers typically celebrate with enthusiasm.
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Scientists Find a New Explanation for Dark Matter Using an Unexpected Source of Inspiration: Superconductivity
SpaceDark matter continues to be one of the great mysteries that fascinates astrophysicists worldwide.
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Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Discover a ‘Dark Matter Bridge’ Using His Predictions
SpaceThe recent finding addresses a mystery surrounding the Perseus cluster.
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Researchers Detected a Strange Chemical Signal at the Center of the Galaxy. It May Be a New Type of Dark Matter
SpaceThe detection of positively charged hydrogen suggests the existence of a new form of dark matter.
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Astronomers Thought They Had Counted All of Saturn’s Moons. After Studying Them for a Year, They Received Quite a Surprise
SpaceTheir research revealed that Saturn has 274 moons, nearly twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined.
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Researchers Have Discovered a Cosmic Network of ‘Highways’ Formed by Gas and Dark Matter Filaments
SpaceExperts spent hundreds of hours capturing the image using the Very Large Telescope. They believe the “cosmic web” comprises conventional and dark matter.
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X-Ray Telescopes Reveal an Inconceivable Object: A Superstructure That Spans More Than a Billion Light-Years
SpaceThe so-called Quipu is the largest superstructure ever identified.
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Scientists Spent Six Years Processing Images of Black Holes Just to Prove Something: Einstein Was Right
SpaceThe first image of black hole M87* faced skepticism, but a second image confirms its accuracy.
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The Probability of an Impact From Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has Increased to 1.8%. It Led the UN to Activate Global Defense Protocols for the First Time
SpaceSpace experts have collaborated with the United Nations to monitor the asteroid’s trajectory closely.
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Physics Is Broken, and the Evidence Is Mounting. The New Hubble Constant Estimate Deepens the Problem
SpaceExperts have recalculated the universe’s expansion rate, deepening the discrepancy.
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Astrophysicists Make a Groundbreaking Discovery: For the First Time, They’ve Observed the Creation of Atoms During an Explosive Cosmic Event
Research“For the first time, we see the creation of atoms, we can measure the temperature of the matter, and we can see the microphysics in this remote explosion.”
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Researchers Find a New Clue to the Three-Body Problem: The Islands of Regularity
SpaceThe three-body problem is a well-known challenge in the field of astronomy, partly because it has inspired one of the most significant science fiction sagas in recent years.
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A Meteorite That Boiled the Oceans About 3 Billion Years Ago Was a 'Fertilizer Bomb' for Early Life, Study Finds
SpaceThe S2 meteorite was 50 to 200 times larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Physicists Have Been Searching for a Fundamental ‘Fifth Force’ for Decades. The Bennu Asteroid May Have Brought Them Closer to Finding It
SpaceThe Standard Model of particle physics suggests that particles interact with each other under the control of four forces. Finding the fifth force would be a significant step forward for physics.
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Scientists Have Been Searching for Planet Nine for Years. More Than 3,000 New Simulations Suggest That It’s Not a Planet and Never Was
SpaceWe may not have found the solar system’s ninth planet because it doesn’t exist.
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The Webb Telescope Has Observed a Planet With Weather So Extreme That Clouds Are Made of Rock and Nights Reach 1112 Degrees Fahrenheit
SpaceIts 5,000 mile-per-hour winds cause molten-rock showers.
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For the First Time in History, Astronomers Are Seeing a Black Hole Waking Up in Real-Time
SpaceIn December 2019, a previously unremarkable, distant galaxy began to glow brightly. Astronomers now understand why.
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From Clouds of Dust and Gas to Black Holes: This Is How Stars Come to Be, Grow, Die, and Reproduce
SpaceThinking about stars as living beings is not entirely unreasonable.
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We’re Receiving Radio Signals From Space. They Repeat Every 54 Minutes and Physics Can’t Explain Them
SpaceWhat sets these signals apart is that they intermittently go through three very different states.
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Stephen Hawking Fell Short in His Prediction: The Universe Is Doomed To Evaporate
SpaceEven stars that are too small to become black holes will gradually fade away.
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