A universe in a bottle: why simulating everything there is is so important
You live in a world where simulations are possible -- and we're not sure if everything *is* a simulation.
Tag: cosmology
Scientists peer back in time to find the birth of the first stars
Call it the Cosmic Dawn.
We now know the largest spinning objects in the universe
Welcome to the world of spinning cosmic filaments.
What is dark matter? A deep dive
84.4% of the matter in the universe is something that we don’t really understand yet.
What are Black Holes: The Journey From Theory to Reality
Black holes have firmly moved from the status of theoretical curiosity to physical reality. We follow that transformation and the ...
Astronomers found a giant cluster of galaxies from the early universe
LAGER-z7OD1 is possibly one of the clusters that marked the end of the Dark Ages of the Universe.
No one knows for sure the expansion rate of the universe
Cosmologists aren’t sure about how fast the universe expands and the mystery continues.
Death By Spaghettification! Astronomers Spot a Star Being Consumed by a Black Hole
This could solve the mystery of tidal disruption events or ‘spaghettification.’
Astronomers Investigate Dark Matter’s Missing Ingredient
Small-scale concentrations of dark matter produce lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected, a new study found.
Gravitational waves reveal largest black hole merger and the first intermediate-mass black hole
The black hole is the first object of its kind with a mass above 100 solar masses but below a ...
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 ...
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 ...