Uniquely cold and dry conditions of the atmosphere over Antarctica’s polar plateau made the observations possible Researchers with the National Science Foundation-funded BICEP2 Collaboration today … Read more
MIT researchers propose using distant quasars to test Bell’s theorem In a paper published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, MIT researchers propose an … Read more
The discovery suggests that the very first generation of stars may not have been as powerful as previously thought. As the Big Bang’s name suggests, … Read more
Black holes—massive objects in space with gravitational forces so strong that not even light can escape them—come in a variety of sizes. On the smaller … Read more
Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but the Lone Star State’s two research giants have teamed … Read more
Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a … Read more
More than 12 billion years ago a star exploded, ripping itself apart and blasting its remains outward in twin jets at nearly the speed of … Read more
Every second, trillions of particles called neutrinos pass through your body. These particles have a mass so tiny it has never been measured, and they … Read more
Smaller begets bigger. Such is often the case for galaxies, at least: the first galaxies were small, then eventually merged together to form the behemoths … Read more
The Doppler redshift in light from distant galaxies in a finite and expanding Universe long thought to explain Olbers paradox of why the night sky is dark and not bright is negated by cosmic dust in an infinite and non-expanding Universe
Cosmic dust explains why the intensity of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect is independent of Redshift.
Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
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