Columbia to upgrade Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher
The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.Credit: ...
Tag: Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope full mirror deployment a success
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the ...
ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black hole
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), K. T. Inoue et al. Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a ...
New technique looks for dark matter traces in dark places
Study knocks down some theories for the origin of a mysterious light signature that has puzzled physicists for yearsCredit: Zosia ...
Holographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe
A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University ...
Scientist recreates icy space conditions to understand makeup of molecular clouds
Northern Arizona University planetary scientist prepares for launch of James Webb Space TelescopeCredit: Photo courtesy of Northern Arizona University Icy ...
Supermassive black holes shortly after the Big Bang: How to seed them
These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were ...
Star formation project maps nearby interstellar clouds
Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star ...
Nahum Arav part of team to discover quasar tsunamis
Credit: Virginia Tech Using the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech's ...
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere
Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere, despite its name, is not actually a sphere. Space physicists have ...
What can you do with spiral graph? Help understand how galaxies evolve
Credit: Ian Hewitt Spiral structure is seen in a variety of natural objects, ranging from plants and animals to tropical ...
Astrophysicists wear 3D glasses to watch quasars
Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada (ESO) A team of researchers from Russia and Greece has shown a way to determine ...
Breakthrough made towards building the world’s most powerful particle accelerator
Credit: UNIST An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization ...
Slime mold simulations used to map dark matter holding universe together
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) The behavior of one of nature's humblest creatures ...