Tag: the cosmos

Soap bubbles can split light into otherworldly branching streams

When a laser beam shines through a membrane made of simple household soap, it branches in a strange and unexpected way that could help us understand the cosmos Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247500-soap-bubbles-can-split-light-into-otherworldly-branching-streams/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

A monster quasar in the early universe

Astronomers just announced the most massive quasar yet known in the early universe. Its monster central black hole has a mass equivalent to 1.5 billion of our suns. The object has been given a Hawaiian name, Poniua’ena. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/poniuaena-monster-quasar-in-early-universe…

NASA funds hunt for alien ‘technosignatures’

Astronomers are gearing up to search the cosmos for signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations. The new search, which is being undertaken a… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337756/nasa-funds-hunt-for-alien-technosignatures…

Breathtaking New Map of the X-ray Universe

Behold the hot, energetic Universe. A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays. From a report: The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos – instances where matter is being accelerated, heated and shredded. Feasting black holes, exploding stars, and searingly hot gas. The data comes…

The cosmic web that connects galaxies together may be spinning

Galaxies across the universe are connected by bridge-like filaments of matter that are the largest structures in the cosmos, and they seem to be spinning Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245973-the-cosmic-web-that-connects-galaxies-together-may-be-spinning/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Scientists close in on 12-billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe’s ‘dark age’

Today, stars fill the night sky. But when the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And an international team of scientists is closer than ever to detecting, measuring and studying a signal from this era that has been traveling through the cosmos ever since that starless era ended some 13 billion years ago. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-scientists-billion-year-old-universe-dark-age.html…

What is the Big Bang?

In the view of modern cosmologists, the Big Bang is the event that marked the birth of our universe. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/definition-what-is-the-big-bang…

Why the universe I invented is right – but still not the final answer

Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos – but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says. Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632851-400-why-the-universe-i-invented-is-right-but-still-not-the-final-answer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Has mystery of universe’s missing matter been solved?

Cosmologists have only been able to find half the matter that should exist in the universe. With the discovery of a new astronomical phenomenon and new telescopes, these researchers say they’ve just found the rest. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/cosmic-bursts-unveil-universe-missing-matter-mystery…