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New Table-Top Experiment can Help Detect Dark Matter

Ever since the 1980s, scientists have been conducting experiments to look for particles that constitute dark matter, an imperceptible substance that spreads across the universe and the Milky Way galaxy.

17 Jun 2020

Supernova Machine Simulates the Splendid Aftermath of Cosmic Blast

Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen light years across glows in shades of emerald and auburn.

17 Jun 2020

Milky Way has Six Billion Earth-Like Planets

To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like (G-type) stars.

17 Jun 2020

Study Identifies Mechanism Behind Radio Wave Beams from Pulsars

When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.

16 Jun 2020

New Model Sheds Light on Behavior of Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

The Milky Way galaxy hosts a giant black hole at its core, just like a majority of the galaxies.

15 Jun 2020

New Precision Distance Measurements Could Help Revise Standard Model of Universe

A new set of precision distance measurements made with an international collection of radio telescopes have greatly increased the likelihood that theorists need to revise the "standard model" that describes the fundamental nature of the Universe.

15 Jun 2020

New Technique Helps Study Photochemical Reactions of Individual Molecules

Researchers have been able to “X-ray” molecules such as oxygen and observe their movement in the microcosm using a novel experimental method.

10 Jun 2020

Researchers Observe Long-Lived Heartbeat of Supermassive Black Hole

A supermassive black hole’s heartbeat has been spotted through X-ray satellite observations after its signal was blocked by the Sun for several years.

10 Jun 2020

Study Reveals How Quasars with Parabola-Shaped Jets Evolve into Cones

A team of researchers from Finland, Germany, Russia, and the United States has analyzed over 300 quasars, which are spinning black holes producing plasma beams.

9 Jun 2020

Astronomers Use VLA to Observe Hidden Hot Corino of Protostar Pair

In response to an intuition, a group of astronomers has presumably solved a puzzle related to young, still-forming stars and organic molecules-rich regions closely surrounding them.

9 Jun 2020