506 results for "dark energy"

NASA’s Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has captured a stunning image of the Rosette Nebula, a star-forming region 5,000 light-years away. This high-resolution image provides detailed insights into the processes of…

A new study using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has revealed that quasars in the early universe are surrounded by dense clusters of companion galaxies, but with an unexpected void…

In 1917, Albert Einstein originally included a cosmological constant in his field equations of general relativity in order to achieve a steady-state static Universe. Shortly after Edwin Hubble’s discovery of...

Posted on Feb 25, 2022 in Science The “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing...

Are LIGO gravitational wave observations of merging black holes an illusion? In 1966, Erast Gliner, a young physicist at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Leningrad, proposed a hypothesis that very...

Astronomers may soon have the answer to what is perhaps the greatest mystery of modern science –is dark energy a uniform force across space and time, or has its strength...

Scientists suggest that a counter-intuitive, hypothetical species of black holes may negate the standard model of cosmology,where dark energy is an inherent and constant property of spacetime that will result...

Posted on May 15, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

Posted on Apr 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Dark Energy, Science Since the big bang, the universe has swollen like a freshly formed raisin roll put in a warm place...

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 in Science “A Very Strange Planet” –Tiny Zigzag Reveals a Secret Buried in Uranus Voyager 2 Data Irreversibility of Time –“Hidden in the Basic Laws...

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 in Cosmos, Dark Energy, Physics, Universe Dark energy has been described as everything from a fifth force to a new form of matter, but so...

“I have absolutely no clue what dark energy is. Dark energy appears strong enough to push the entire universe – yet its source is unknown, its location is unknown and...

In 1966, Erast Gliner, a young physicist at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Leningrad, proposed a hypothesis that very large stars should collapse into what could now be called Generic...

An experiment to test a popular theory that dark energy –the unknown force that is causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate– is a ‘fifth’ force that acts...

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Dark Energy, Physics, Science, Space Justin Khoury,  physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, has proposed one possible reason why dark energy particles have yet...

Posted on Mar 6, 2019 in Cosmology, Science “Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed,” said Noble Prize winning physicist Adam...

Welcome to the biggest mystery in physics: one of the great known unknowns of the universe is the nature of dark energy, an antigravitaional  force field making the universe expand...

Observational cosmologists are actively searching for a “new physics” that may solve the enduring enigma of our rapidly expanding Universe. Quasars, the ancient cores of galaxies where a supermassive black...

“We now think that both dark matter and dark energy can be unified into a fluid which possesses a type of ‘negative gravity’, repelling all other material around them,” said...

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Cosmos, Dark Matter, Physics, Science, Science News, Space, String Theory, Technology “The discovery of dark energy has greatly changed how we think...

One thing is certain: there’s something out there we don’t yet know. For years now scientists have been looking for “dark matter” or “dark energy” – with our current inventory...

In May of 2015, the Royal Astronomical Society published an astonishing paper exploring an area in space known as the Cold Spot that astronomers have identified the largest known structure...

Posted on May 14, 2018 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Physics “The formation of stars in a universe is a battle between the attraction of gravity, and the repulsion of dark...

Posted on Dec 19, 2017 in Uncategorized   "Maybe we have underestimated some events, or something is unaccounted for that we'll need to revise the standard cosmology of the universe,"...

Posted on Aug 28, 2017 in Uncategorized It's a cosmic irony: the biggest things in the universe can also be the hardest to find. A single galaxy cluster can be...

Posted on Nov 15, 2016 One of the great mysteries of the cosmos is why it is expanding at an apparently accelerating rate. Physicists have suggested an outward force, dubbed...

Posted on Feb 10, 2016 In September 2014, a group of astronomers including R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii and Hélène Courtois of the University of Lyon determined...

Posted on Mar 21, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Energy Black holes, predicted Einstein, are supposed to have a singularity—a point that is so small and dense that...

“Unknown Physics” –Darkest Mystery of the Cosmos Deepens “Ad Astra” –Thirty Years After a Doomed Expedition, Secrets Challenge Our Place in the Cosmos “The Black Hole Larger Than Our Solar...

Astronomers have discovered a rare "Carousel Lens"—a unique alignment of galaxies that offers new insights into dark matter and dark energy. This cosmic arrangement, observed through gravitational lensing, magnifies seven…

Astronomers are chasing one of the most elusive mysteries in the cosmos: how supermassive black holes—the largest known black holes—merge into monstrous giants that can weigh billions of times more...

Recent studies have provided compelling evidence that dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe's mass, might interact with itself. This new hypothesis challenges the current...

Today’s stories include Black Holes Create Mysterious Vortex ‘Structures’ That Could Open ‘Portals’ Into Dark Matter to The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe to Did Magnetism Shape the Universe?...

Posted on Oct 27, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Early Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include How One...

Posted on Aug 17, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Early Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, Hubble Tension, James Webb Space Telescope, Multiverse, NASA, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe...

Posted on Jun 4, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Early Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, Milky Way Galaxy, Multiverse, NASA, Science, Science News, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories range...

Could the formation of supermassive black holes, as well as the nature of dark matter, be the result of violent cosmological phase transition in the dark sector of the Universe....

Today’s stories range from Mysterious Globular Clusters Could Unlock the Secrets of Galaxy Formation to ‘Quantum Gravity’ Could Emerge From a Holographic Universe to  25,000 Supermassive Black Holes in One...

Our massive Milky Way Galaxy –the second-largest galaxy in the Local Group after the Andromeda Galaxy–is orbited by more than twenty dwarf galaxies that are thought to be relics of...

“Dark matter holds the key to understanding the universe,” says astrophysicist Paul Davies. The mysterious dark matter particles compose 80% of the matter in the Universe, and they have been...

Posted on Nov 13, 2021 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Black Holes, Climate Change, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Gravitational Waves, Milky Way Galaxy, Physics, Science, Universe Another amazing...

Dark matter is aptly named. It emits no light and interacts with visible matter only via gravity. But dark matter might be only the tip of an invisible universe of...

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Astronomy, Science In 2017, NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted electrons being fired down into Jupiter’s atmosphere at up to an enormous 400,000 volts, giving rise...

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 in Science “With the wake we have a brand new testing ground for theories of dark matter,” wrote Harvard astrophysicist Rohan Naidu in an email...

Posted on Apr 1, 2021 in Science Something unknown and unseen — a suspected population of ‘dark matter sub-halos’ — has been destroying the stars in the enormous tidal tail...

“Honestly, our discovery may just be a coincidence. But if it isn’t, it is truly incredible. It would change our understanding of the universe’s composition and why it is expanding...

Posted on Mar 23, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Science Scientists working at the frontier of particle physics are proposing the existence of a theoretical exotic, ultra-light boson with...

Posted on Mar 22, 2022 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science, Universe Ancient galaxy clusters have been described as “the dark skeletons of the cosmos.” Astronomers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de...

One early result of the 2nd release of the still ongoing Dark Energy Survey is the previously untold story revealed by old, giant RR Lyrae (RRL) pulsating stars with a...

Posted on Jan 17, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Universe “Dark matter holds the key to understanding the universe,” says astrophysicist Paul Davies. ”After the big bang that created...