Subaru Telescope helps find dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes
Credit: Kavli IPMU An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its ...
Tag: Astrophysics
Hubble spots flock of cosmic ducks
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Dobbie et al. This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open ...
Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axions
In its first run, ABRACADABRA detects no signal of the hypothetical dark matter particle within a specific mass range. Physicists ...
Hubble watches spun-up asteroid coming apart
Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory) A small asteroid ...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing ...
RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume the hunt for ripples in space and time
Advanced LIGO's third observing run will provide scientists new data on gravitational waves The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for ...
Physicists constrain dark matter
Credit: ESO/WFI (optical), MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (submillimeter), NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray) Researchers from Russia, Finland, and the U.S. ...
GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging
Cutting-edge VLTI instrument reveals details of a storm-wracked exoplanet using optical interferometryCredit: ESO/L. Calçada The GRAVITY instrument on ESO's Very ...
Ultra-sharp images make old stars look absolutely marvelous!
Credit: Composite image produced by Mattia Libralato of Space Telescope Science Institute Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini ...
Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms
Astrophysicists observe physics phenomena in gas streamsCredit: Hinode JAXA/NASA Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a ...
Listening to the quantum vacuum
Credit: Elsa Hahne, LSU Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light ...
Studying plasma physics in exploding stars — NSF CAREER award
Credit: Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Bhuvana Srinivasan of the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering has been ...
Searching for disappeared anti-matter: A successful start to measurements with Belle II
Credit: KEK/Belle II The Belle II detector got off to a successful start in Japan. Since March 25, 2019, the ...
Icy giant planets in the laboratory
HZDR researchers use plastics to better understand what happens inside planetsCredit: HZDR / J. Vorberger Giant planets like Uranus and ...