What’s My Age Again? New Discoveries May Spark a Rethink of Galaxy Formation
A trifecta of recent discoveries has challenged models of galactic evolution, suggesting that galaxies could have formed much sooner in ...
Tag: cosmology
The Cosmological Constant: How Einstein’s ‘greatest blunder’ became an expanding problem
The Universe is expanding, of that much cosmologists are sure. But the question of what rate at which that expansion ...
Nobel Physics Prize goes to cosmology and exoplanet pioneers
It's exciting to see exoplanet research being awarded with a Nobel Prize.
Researchers simulate millions of virtual universes to study star formation
Two-thousand processors simulated more than 8 million universes and countless galaxies.
Researchers create a remarkably accurate model of our Universe and its evolution
The Illustris project took 5 years of software development and 3 months running on 8000 processors - but it sure was ...
Universe may be curved, not flat
It is currently believed that we live in a lopsided Universe: cosmologists reached this conclusion by examining the detailed structure ...
Scientists reproduce conditions from early universe
Physicists have successfully reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in an experiment which used ultracold cesium atoms ...
Largest known structure in the Universe discovered by scientists
Astronomers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire have recently published a landmark paper that describes the largest known structure in the ...
Top Astrophysicists Throng Goa (India) to Share Experiences on “Gravity and Cosmology” in VII International Conclave
Panaji (Goa-India), Dec 12, 2011: Hunt for finding the hypothetical massive elementary particle, the Higgs boson, popularly known as ‘The ...
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Neutrino! A Hauntingly Significant Particle
Neutrinos interact so weakly with matter and yet, are of vital importance in the processes that govern the Universe. This...
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